Post by thread:Pic start programmer on NT4.

part 0 1511 bytes <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I am new to pic but so far so good. I have a question regarding using the pic start programmer with NT4. Is it possible ? I seem to have it almost working by connecting it to COM2 and setting COM2 to 0x3e8 and IRQ 11. Mplab recognises the programmer but returns an error when I run a command. The error is "Command (8D) not echoed properly (AB)". I don't imagine this is important but I have the COM2 port set with 9600, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit and hardware handshaking.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Can someone tell me if I am wasting my time and should run on some other Microsoft platform (Windows or Windows 95) ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks in advance for your much appreciated assistance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>stever</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> </x-html>

<x-rich>At 10:38 19/08/98 +1000, you wrote: >>>> <excerpt>Hi all I am new to pic but so far so good. I have a question regarding using the pic start programmer with NT4. Is it possible ? I seem to have it almost working by connecting it to COM2 and setting COM2 to 0x3e8 and IRQ 11. Mplab recognises the programmer but returns an error when I run a command. The error is "Command (8D) not echoed properly (AB)". I don't imagine this is important but I have the COM2 port set with 9600, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit and hardware handshaking. Can someone tell me if I am wasting my time and should run on some other Microsoft platform (Windows or Windows 95) ? Thanks in advance for your much appreciated assistance. stever </excerpt> MPLAB will not work (yet) with the picstart plus under Win NT. I hear that "Win NT beta 5" fixes the serial comm incompatibility problem. Also I have just posted my own windows driver for the picstart plus that works indepenantly of MPLAB. I have had the one person give me repeated assurances that it works under win NT. I don't think this is enough for me to make any stong claims on the matter but you are free to download and try it. http://www.pipeline.com.au/users/newfound/winpsp.htm Other options are use win 95 with MPLAB. BTW. picstart plus comms is 19200, n, 8, 1 Regards Jim -------------------------------------------------------- Jim Robertson NEWFOUND ELECTRONICS Email: spam_OUTnewfoundTakeThisOuTpipeline.com.au http://www.pipeline.com.au/users/newfound -------------------------------------------------------- </x-rich>

>Also I have just posted my own windows driver for the picstart plus that >works indepenantly of MPLAB. I have had the one person give me repeated >assurances that it works under win NT. You know, I was thinking that it just might be possible to intercept the win16 communications calls from MPLAB and 'translate' them into the win32 equivalents. You'd need a win16 program to do the intercept, and a win32 program to actually do the communications. And you'd also need some kind of thunk between the win16 and win32 world (OLE? DDE?, WM_COPYDATA?) to pass the data. Almost makes me wish I had a picstart plus... newell