Helpful suggestion

[Romans, Mark]

My Needhams emp20 runs fine in windows.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith D. Miller" <kdmiller at westnet.com>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: Helpful suggestion


> Sounds like you need better software. That that I use runs
> fine under windows (w2k may be a problem, tho').
>
> We burn many proms at work, and each needs a few bytes
> changed for configuation. So years ago I wrote a dos prog
> to manage the changes and spawn the burner prog. Since
> moving that to a windows PC, the only problem has been the
> person doing the eproms tends to start multiple copies of
> the program. Causing strange things to happen at times.
> One day I'll convert it to a windoze prog, or wimp out and
> make it so they can't start anything else while it's
> running.
>
> Even if you don't change software, or don't want too. NICs
> are cheap and far faster than sneaker neting. Might be
> hard to find a copy of WGAO these days though.
>
> Keith
> --
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gmecm at diy-efi.org
> > [mailto:owner-gmecm at diy-efi.org]On Behalf
> > Of Shannen Durphey
> > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 8:51 PM
> > To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
> > Subject: Helpful suggestion
> >
> >
> > I dunno how many guys are doing this, but it works extremely
> > well for me.  I use
> > Windows to run whatever tuning software I'm using.  That
> > allows me to compare
> > multiple .bins at once, or open a hex editor simultaneously,
> > or to find where I
> > saved that missing .bin file, compare Excel spreadsheets...
> whatever.
> >
> > But doing this means restarting the pc in DOS mode every time
> > I want to burn a
> > chip, then going back to Windows for the next round of
> > tuning.  It gets to be a
> > PITA, and if your pc takes a while to boot, the restarts can
> > easily eat up the
> > better part of an hour.
> >
> > So I've got my keyboard and monitor hooked to a switch that
> > allows sharing between
> > 2 pc's, and I use an old 386 to operate the burner only.  I
> > simply make the .bin
> > files I want, save them to the hard drive of the Windows
> > machine, and transfer them
> > to the DOS only machine via 3 1/2" floppy.  It works great,
> > and it makes me feel
> > good because I didn't have to throw that old pc away (I
> > probably have it because
> > someone else threw it away).  Plus I have automatic backups
> > of all my .bin files.
> > The used pc store sells switches allowing 2 pc's to share
> > keyboard/monitor for $15.
> >
> > For anyone who's burning many .bins, this can be a real timesaver.
> >
> > Shannen
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