The MiniMig PIC update issue thread

[Darrin]

Anders, where do you live?  I'm away in Brazil at the moment, but I'd be happy to let you mail one of your PICs to me and I could fit it to my Minimig and reflash it for you.  If I can reflash it then the Minimig board may be the problem, if I can't then it might be the PCs... or something you're (not) doing.

I'll be home in around 3 weeks.

Edit:  If it does turn out to be the board then I'm sure ACube will fix it/replace it.  Their service & support has been top-notch so far.

Out of interest, do your PCs have "real" serial ports or USB-Serial dongles?

[Darrin]

Have you tried screaming "UPDATE YOU USELESS *#&!ING PIECE OF %&$@!" at it?

[Darrin]

odin22 wrote:
Again, thanks for the massive rally to help out. You guys are fantastic. You really are. Rarily have I come across a forum as kind and open to newcomers as this.

This place is the best when it comes to asking for help, plus many of the developers hang out here too.

[Darrin]

odin22 wrote:
Hi MiniMorph.

The programmer as well as it's low price is certainly intriguing, but it seems to me that this is only half the solution. Since it has no socket on the actual programmer for connecting a PIC, I assume you need an interface board with a compatible pinout for the programmer to communicate with it. Correct?

So where would I find that if I was to look into that solution for future updates?

For future updates, I'm hoping that Yaqube's PIC expansion board works out and that somebody puts it into production.  Then you can update your Minimig via a USB memory stick.

[Darrin]

odin22 wrote:
I just tried Hyper Terminal with the mentioned settings, powered up the board, and got this:

"Ç▪"

I powered up and tried the PGM reset button a few times more, but it keeps returning the same value. I'm not sure what to make of it.

It an updated Commodore logo!  ;-)