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Old 10th Dec 2011, 8:45 pm   #1
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Home brew Tait programmer

Does any one on this forum know where I can download software which will allow it to run on windows XP rather than than windows 98

The old shed computer is on its last legs

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Old 10th Dec 2011, 11:09 pm   #2
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Hello.

Am I correct in thinking that this is a LPT driven PIC programmer??

Are you using IC-Prog in Windows 98?

I've got a few home brew no-name programmers designed for Dos/win9x which I've successfully got to work under XP.

Could you supply a few more details about your setup and I'll see what I can find...

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Old 11th Dec 2011, 1:12 pm   #3
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I believe the PICPgm freeware is quite popular and supports the Tait Classic programmer under XP.
http://picpgm.picprojects.net/hardware.html

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Old 11th Dec 2011, 9:30 pm   #4
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Thanks for your replies guys and yes it is an LPT programmer it worked ok untill 6 months ago when my windows 98 machine,s hard drive died ( I have had no reason to use it recently )

I shoved in a new drive and reloaded all the software but the programmer refused to work

To cut a long story short the pic 12f675 I was trying to write to was faulty and killed a logic 7404, a pnp transistor and a 7805 regulator

All is now working ok again but I will have to move on from windows 98 and LPT ports as they are very obsolete, I will try the software suggested

I have a pickit2 which I have had lying about for quite a while so will fire it up but I like to move from what I know works to whats new

thanks jimmc101 and bodge 99

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Old 12th Dec 2011, 11:20 am   #5
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Hello,

Just a thought... You probably won't have any joy getting an LPT programmer to run from a standard USB to LPT adapter/converter.

Apparently, most LPT programmers bit bang on the LPT port. Timing issues within USB cause this to fail.

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Old 13th Dec 2011, 10:20 am   #6
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I've had to abandon my trusty old LPT PIC programmer. It was fine in Windows 2000, but unreliable in Windows XP (on the same PC with a real parallel port) - but generally if I tried two or three times you'd get it to successfully program. I was happy with this, given the programmer cost me under £5 to build.

I then switched to using an old laptop running Linux which worked every time, but eventually the laptop expired.

I now have no way of programming PICs, and have a load of unused 16F628s and 16F84s sitting in a drawer doing nothing.

I do occasionally scan ebay and the like for cheap USB Pickits or similar, but I might just give up on them and have a play with Atmel based things like the Arduino instead. I'm not a big fan of PIC assembler anyway (and assembler is my preferred level of programming language)
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Old 14th Dec 2011, 10:51 pm   #7
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I guess I am like some of you guys on a very limited budget so all my kit is homebrewed, but success at last , I have now got two pic programmers working, one for windows 98 (my old trusty shed computer running a home brew tait ) and a velleman 8048 that I got at a ham jumble sale for a tenner ( it works fine on windows XP )

Just spent a pleasant afternoon getting my programme for an auto shut down power system for my shed working on the 8048 experimenter board, I am using a PIC 16f628a and the only prob I had was it can use a facility called LVP where you do not need a higher voltage on the MCLR pin during programming, however you have to specify this in the config word directive otherwise ( if my case is typical ) RB4 / PGM pin will not work as a digital I/O pin

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