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  • Re: EPROM: how to get started?

    From Riccardo Rubini@rubini@despammed.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 00:22:40
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    "Cameron Kaiser" <ckaiser@floodgap.com> wrote in message news:40141e2b$0$70186$45beb828@newscene.com...

    Can't go wrong with a Promenade -- it's the only burner I'll use. However, there are some PC-based ones if you prefer to be apostate. ;)

    Yup. I agree with you on that, it's the best choice on the Commodore 64. Anyway, there are many cheaper solutions for the PC as good as the Promenade is. Honestly, although I own a Promenade, with a lame rebranded artwork by
    some Italian company, I can't stand the dreadful experience of programming eproms with it.

    Rex Datentechnik solutions are also nice. I guess I own a Goliath it can program up to 27512 eproms, but there's also the Micro Maxi Eprommer ( I &
    II ). Oh, and Dela ones, there are a couple of revisions of their
    programming hardware. Good, but dreadful still...

    Used Promenades pop up on eBay now and then (I bought mine there, along
    with
    the software, manuals and a prototyping board). Expect to pay around
    $50-$75
    for a set in good condition.

    For 69$ you can buy a brand new Batronix Eprommer for the PC. Or, well, you
    can build it by yourself and save more money. http://batronix.com/electronic/circuits/eeprommer.shtml

    The Willem, sold at http://www.epromprogrammer.nl/ , is also a great
    product, but you'll have to raise your budget a little bit, costs about 80
    EUR with a ZIF socket. I own one and it's a great piece of hardware and the software is also very intuitive and easy to use.

    The cheapest solution I am aware of is the so called "Andrew's programmer", here http://home.quicknet.com.au/andrewm/eprom1/index.html . I built this
    one sometime ago...Very easy to do.

    These three are very low cost solutions and I guess the only advantage the Promenade has against these is its support for 68764 eproms, pin-to-pin compatibles to the 2364 ROMs used by Commodore, and older 2716 and 2732
    ones, still handled by some of the aformentioned products above. But,
    anyway, 68764 eproms are rare and expensive, building a 2764 with an adapter replacement or, better, a 27128 with a switch is a cheaper option,
    expecially if you don't know the right places to look and buy 68764's.

    It programs a great number of ROM types, and
    I think FUnet has the software and documentation ... ?

    Here it is : http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/c64/manuals/Promenade.txt

    Riccardo



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  • From Leif Bloomquist@abuse@127.0.0.2 to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 18:08:04
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    I'm just getting into this too :)

    I have:

    -An EPROM progammer.
    -Some D2764s and 27C64A s.
    -.bin files to put on them.
    -Spare C64 cartridges to cannibalize.

    Now what?

    Can I just program them with the .bin files, and put them on the cartridge
    in place of the ROM chips on the cartridge (with an adapter)? Surely it
    isn't that easy?

    Regards
    Leif

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