So their websites are updated with new informations.
V170 Classic from Microchip supports 16F627A/16F628A
/16F648A. I have tested the last two chips with
no problem. It is supposed to support 16F913/914/
16F877A as well. But so fat I have no success with 
16F877A yet.

Mark Rages' program under Linux does not support
the 18pin 16F627/628A/629A now.

Both program are open source so one can actually
add more supports for more chips within the limitation
of the firmware (quite a lot of empty space now
but nobody likes to work with the 16C745).

Actually no special adapter is necessary since you
only need ICSP. What you need is soldering 5 wires
(almost zero costs) from J3 and link them to your 
board or the correct pins of your ZIF sockets. The
so-called adpater is just doing this for you.

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Maarten Hofman [mailto:cashimor@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 10:09 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] I2C development tool for PC
...

And a few more that "require an adapter". As the website also states
the PICkit1 is meant for 8/14-pin devices, and some of the device you
list (and especially the 16F628A, which I am most interested in) have
18-pins, I was wondering how I should envision this. I would imagine
it has something do do with the "in circuit programming" or the
adapter... Could you please explain? Would it involve parts above and
beyond the $36 that the kit costs? Is there a reason why the 16F88
would not be in the list?

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