Well, I already bought one and have been patiently waiting
for the 16F88 support :)

~Kevin

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> > Without knowing the finer details, one thing that *seems*
> > harder with the dsPIC's, is to get support in some of the
> > common hobbyist-oriented PIC programmers... ;-) ;-)
>
> A few months ago the consensus was that anyone messing with dsPICs would be
> using at least an ICD2 anyway, and that therefore there wouldn't be much
> demand for a hobbyist programmer to support dsPICs.  I've seen a lot of
> hobbyist complaining about the lack thereof lately, so has something changed
> or are they not thinking this thru all the way?
>
> Do you honestly think I would sell a reasonable amount of additional
> EasyProgs if it supported dsPICs?  The host software is already tested and
> working, and I've got the ProProg firmware that I should be able to port
> without too much trouble.  The downside is that dsPICs won't be programmable
> in the ZIF socket because they have a completely different pinout, and of
> course I have limited bandwidth so this would be done at the expense of
> something else, like adding 16F88 support.
>
> OK, how about a show of hands?  I'm not going to hold anyone to this, but
> who out there would personally be inclined to buy an EasyProg (in any form)
> if it:
>
> supported dsPICs?
> 16F88?
> Any other PIC?
>
>
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