"nospam" wrote in message
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DJ Delorie wrote:


nospam writes:
Hard to see how DIYing anything is worth the trouble

In general, two good reasons I can think of:

1. It's fun.

2. Building ICE capabilities into a multi-cpu device. For example, my
furnace has six CPUs, one big one which can reprogram the five
little ones.

When I said DIYing anything, anything meant any MPLab compatible
programming device.

ebay uk has ICD2 clones from £36 delivered.

The OP presumably has something rather more fun to do for which he needs a
programmer.
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What I have is a Velleman K8048 programmer which only level shifts certain
pins on the RS232 connector to 5V logic level and feeds the resultant
signals to the PGD, PGC & VPP pins on the PIC - I was hoping MPLAB had a
compatibility mode for such a "dumb" programmer board.

Obviously the Velleman kit came with programming software, and the kit
schematic is almost identical to a couple of others I've downloaded, but if
a new PIC is introduced I'd have to trawl the net for programmer software to
support it, if it was easy to modify my kit to work with MPLAB this would be
a much simpler problem.