When I started with PIC's last summer, I soon found
the programmer from Wouter van Ooijen
(http://www.voti.nl/wisp628/index.html), and that
programmer really helped me getting started easily
with the PIC's.

Parsonaly, I prefer a serial port programmer (with
some "inteligence" in the programmer) over the
parallel variants. From what I have seen, the
parallel programmers sometimes has a harder time
to comply to the programming timing of the chips.
More so with the newer chips with more complex
programming algoritms (such as "page" modes). This is
only a personal reflection and might not be true
with all parallel programmers...

Well, didn't help much with your current programmer :-)

Jan-Erik.



Mike105105@AOL.COM wrote:
>Hello everyone...I am a n00b and need some help.  I am using one of those
>parallel port programmers and just can't seem to find software that supports
>the 676.  I know Picall can be setup for newer chips, but I am unsure of the
>data that I would need to enter in the config file.  Any help would be
>greatly appreciated as I just recently found  out how great these little
>PIC's are and I cant wait to make a few projects :-)
>
>Mike Hillpot

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