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Project goal: open source tools to drive BP programmers to enable more advanced R&D (ex: raster scan laser to find fuses)
Secondary goal: explore options to make high quality legacy parallel port units (ex: BP-1600) usable on modern computers. One good option might be to RE protocol and network them with a RPi
EOL notice: http://www3.bpmmicro.com/web/helpandsupport.nsf/WebKeys/BPM-8NTSKL?openDocument
LN: ftp://ftp.bpmmicro.com/Dnload/bpw_v5330.exe LN: is the last one which works with parport LN: however i'm not sure that one runs on xp! LN: that one does bitch at you that parport is EOLed LN: 5270 is the last one which doesn't bitch LN: if that bothers you
Card: StarTech Parallel Card - SPP/EPP/ECP EC1PECPS
Without any programmer you get this:
something about entering demo mode
Tried to use PCI express parallel port with VMWare. Got this (BIOS: bidirectional):
"programmer site 1 did not respond to reset"
VM performance very poor even before launching BP software. Gave up and went to real windows system
Trying EPP:
Programmers
Socket modules