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just make sure you will build your ICD2 with 16F876 part, not the 'A' version.
Mike, I know that you can use 'A' parts! But you will never know what will Microchip do, maybe they will decide to reduce "piracy" by simple making ICD2 with A parts not working...Mike said:just make sure you will build your ICD2 with 16F876 part, not the 'A' version.
Jay,
I just replaced the 16F876 device in my ICD2 with a 16F876A and the 'A' version parts work fine... You simply need to program the 'A' parts with the modified bootloader (below)...
Regards, Mike
Jay.slovak said:But you will never know what will Microchip do, maybe they will decide to reduce "piracy" by simple making ICD2 with A parts not working...
Hmm that's a nice attitude, I was thinking that microchip will lose 100$ (or how much ICD2 costs) to sell one more 16F876... Yes, ICD2 clones DO attract people and makes Microchip more popular, but Aren't they popular enaugh because of Samples?Nigel Goodwin said:Jay.slovak said:But you will never know what will Microchip do, maybe they will decide to reduce "piracy" by simple making ICD2 with A parts not working...
I doubt it worries MicroChip at all?, they are in the business of selling PIC's, not programmers - and you have to buy a PIC to build one!, then all it's good for is programming MORE PIC's - so you have to buy even more of them!.
Why should MicroChip be worried about that?.
It seems pretty obvious that they want people to build them, they publish the circuits and allow free download of the software, people copying their programmers can only be good for them.
Jay.slovak said:Yes, ICD2 clones DO attract people and makes Microchip more popular, but Aren't they popular enaugh because of Samples?
Nigel, that's very true, I see it now 8)Nigel Goodwin said:Samples are no use if you can't program them? :lol:
It's probably this attitude that makes the PIC by far the most popular hobbiest micro-controller, to the extent that 'PIC' is often used to describe ANY micro-controller - rather like Hoover and vacuum cleaners.
No, it's OK to order them, just don't abuse the service (don't order tons of them, or they will BAN your country...)Clyd3 said:dont be a punk!!! I only ordered them, once I confirmed that I could program them... It's inconvenient when I have to go to the post office, and possibly pay import duties etc.
I really like this whole PIC thing, and I did not expect it to get this good...
I also heard about Australia, that was funny. My country used to be banned too, but they restarted giving samples again in January (One firm was getting few sample packages per day, and they were SELLING them LOL ).Clyd3 said:i heard about that... wasnt that australia or something... that wouldnt be nice...