[Metalab] Anyone in the 'lab got PonyProg?

[Jay Vaughan]

>

> First of all, I think you want to program this using normal C (avr-
> gcc) instead of Bascom.

I want to, yes, but the 11 year old kid I built the mignon for doesn't  
really have the chops quite yet to deal with avr-gcc .. normally I  
would use avr-gcc, yes, for sure ..

> In case, AVRDUDE should work for uploading programs. It might be some
> work to get it up and running in terms of mapping which ports do
> which, and implement whatever basic libraries are available in C.
>

.. yeah, i could take that approach, but the advantage of the mignon  
gamekit, which is a gift for a kid who needs it more than it is a  
hacker project for me right now, is that there are tons of other  
applications written by other 11-year old kids, and those are, alas ..  
in BASIC.

> You could probably use Arduino as well, as this is the same controller
> as on early Arduino boards, although the bootloader and pinout
> probably aren't 100% compatible.
>

I've got Arduino's in my toolchest, no worries there Marius!  Its just  
that I want to finish this mignon gamekit thing and get a few of the  
kid-contributed samples uploaded and made available for the person for  
whom this kit is intended ..

> I'm not going to be very available this week, but I can definitely get
> you up and running when I'm back middle of next week.
>


I'm hoping when you return next week we can put in some serious time  
on other AVR-related matters indeed, and yes for sure GCC is going to  
be my tool of choice.  Just, for the mignon, having a PonyProg around  
would be helpful ..

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Jay Vaughan