Before you all jump in and say its not possible, I've found a couple of old postings that say it is. Aparrently Newfoundland Electronics used to do a converter which would emulate the Picstart programmer and translate the requests from Mplab into outputs that a Tait programmer would understand. There are some broken links on many sites but nothing I can find that will let me do this. Have any of you Piclisters got any ideas where to look next ? I've got a Tait programmer that works fine but I'd like to integrate into Mplab more without having to switch between programs every time I want to test some code. I've considered building the ICD but I'm just seeing if theres an easier way of doing this. Thanks in advance Dom -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads