15 Feb
2008
15 Feb
'08
8:39 p.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
From Cheapest to Eternal:
- Willem. Nothing can be cheaper than that. You can build one on
your home for a few quids, a single sided board drawing is avaiable
which you can make using photo method or thermal toner transfer. Very
reliable but doesn't program anything older than 2732 or 2716 if I'm
not mistaken, Although there is an adapter avaiable.
Willem would be fine (I'd
rather not spend a fortune on a programmer,
and I've got enough projects here that rolling my own is not a task I'd
prefer for today. On that note, a Willem looks great, cheap, programs a
bunch of stuff, OK interface.
But, the sheer number of variations and the lack of concrete informaiton
on them makes it very hard to discern what to buy.
On the one hand, The PCB 5.X folks say they will program much faster
than a 3B board and have more on-board adapters, but the 3B folks say
the 5.X folks reverse engineered the design and it won't be as
complatible. Eeek. Any help finding a good unit here would be grand.
- Top 2004/2007/2008/whatever. These programmers made in china are
very cheap and very capable, but the software is terrible and the
support is nil. I'd not buy one of these but they **works**
Yeah, saw those. I
need more orphanware like I need a hole in the head.
- Used ALL-03 / ALL-11 programmer - top of mind, great programmers
for all kind of jobs, does SRAM/DRAM/TTL/CMOS/Whatever testing and are
usually cheap - if you can find one to buy.
I'll look for one, but this is more
a "get something now, move on" type
of proposition.
- Used Labprog 48 from Elnec. www.elnec.com says it
all.
I'll check this.
- NEW Beeprog / Beeprog + from Elnec. The best $300-700 you're
going to spend in a programmer. I have a beeprog and will not have to
buy anything for a long time. Excellent support, DAILY (!) updates and
a great tool.
Too rich for me... But, I'll save this for when I want a nice
unit.
I hesitate to spend much, since I've existed quite a long time without
one at all. But, I should have one, to program the odd KERNAL or dump it.
Jim