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Macs are certainly used for software development. Maybe not in .NET or something.

Where I work there are plenty of Macs used by developers. All but 2 people on the team I am on are using Macs.

This is certainly not the case everywhere. But we (including myself) certainly should not be making blanket statements about an entire software industry based on our personal and often local experiences.

Lets leave the religious mac vs PC wars for somewhere else and get back to discussing arcade games and EPROM programmers in the case of this thread.

And for anyone that cares, this was typed on a Mac, but I also have several PCs, and I run Mac, Windows, and Linux. I generally prefer Linux, Mac, and Windows in that order, but it really depends on what I'm doing.

Oh, and as stated previously, my EPROM programming 'station' runs DOS :) with my fileserver serving storage to DOS via NFS. DOS haters need not reply :)
 
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*THAT* is the funniest thing I have read all week! I think you have that backwards, the Mac people are either the non-technical or artsy people. Real work is done on Windows boxes. We now have *one* Mac left at our site and that is for SW maintenance of old equipment.

OK -- I'll give you Linux being used often in software development but certainly NOT Mac. But Windows has greatly outpaced the Linux boxes for several years.

We create drivers for our products for both Linux and Windows, our Windows embedded version is highly popular. In the past 15 years, absolutely nobody has ever asked for a Mac version. CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora & plus few other flavors of Linux and Windows are the only versions we now maintain.

More and more of our customers are running Windows and even the various Linux versions are dropping off. Right now - our Windows versions are being used at a rate of more than 4x the Linux versions. Systems based on the Dell R930s are selling big this month with Windows Server.

^ agree ^, troubydoobydoo is trolling hard core. all his info is completely opposite of
what is in real life, trouby must one of those 20yo hipsters trust baby kids, privileged
with 200k salary in the silicon valley, must be nice.

An snippet from the below linked video (time from 3m:25s to 4m:02s):



 
Oh, and as stated previously, my EPROM programming 'station' runs DOS :) with my fileserver serving storage to DOS via NFS. DOS haters need not reply :)

DOS?
Ever try an Advin programmer.
The Advin such as Pilot U44+ or U84+ are quite reliable. Large list of parts with their windows software but not a lot of older parts. Their DOS software supports a ton of old stuff dating all the way back to 1702s.
 
Has anyone gotten the GQ-4x4 to work in a VM, and if so, which one? I tried VirtualBox on two machines (one Mac, one Linux). I was able to install the driver and launch the program, but it failed to communicate with the GQ-4x4.

I'm running everything off a thin client now, since it can run XP, and has USB and a hardware serial port.
 
Has anyone gotten the GQ-4x4 to work in a VM, and if so, which one? I tried VirtualBox on two machines (one Mac, one Linux). I was able to install the driver and launch the program, but it failed to communicate with the GQ-4x4.

I'm running everything off a thin client now, since it can run XP, and has USB and a hardware serial port.

Parallels has always worked for me on Mac.
 
> Has anyone gotten the GQ-4x4 to work in a VM, and if so, which one? I tried VirtualBox on two machines (one Mac, one Linux).

Yes, I have it running in win 10 in virtualbox on an Ubuntu host.

You need to install the "virtualbox extension pack" to get usb 2 and 3 support. Then you need to create a rule specific to the device when it's plugged in so that it gets automatically connected to the guest.
 
Not sure if this was mentioned already but I use dosbox running on window 7 to talk to my data i/o 29a and Series 22. The laptop I have has a serial port on it which isn't too common anymore. I can't say how well it will work with a usb serial adapter, never had to test it.
 
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^ agree ^, troubydoobydoo is trolling hard core. all his info is completely opposite of
what is in real life, trouby must one of those 20yo hipsters trust baby kids, privileged
with 200k salary in the silicon valley, must be nice.

An snippet from the below linked video (time from 3m:25s to 4m:02s):




I just caught back up to this thread and laughed very very hard...you guys are awesome...and funny....and some of you made good points...no worries.....


No, I am not 20.....double that and some change.....

Linux powers the Internet....mostly its behind the scenes...just about every gadget out there runs some flavor of Linux.

I have walked into Google, AT&T, VmWare's offices, and many others...yes Windows do exist....for sure....but Mac is dominant. Engineers prefer Mac's native support for networking which is much better than what is provided in Windows. I remember people fussing over losing a Start button in Windows 8. I cracked up.


I have a Netgear WIFI Extender....runs on Linux. Our own company products, run on Open WRT, with BusyBox installed.....Linux....small footprint version...its all over.

Users, yes...Windows...and yes, I agree back in the 1990's Mac was known for Graphics....I wish I had bought Apple stock back then......

And someone mentioned that these programmers are years old and thats why there are no Mac versions...Ok....makes sense...good answer. I have seen some newer programmers listed from China that would seem like they could have something for Mac...dont know...I am just starting to collect my tools and certainly a hobbyist like many others....you guys are the experts and why we are on this forum.....

Mac Vs PC...certainly can get religious....and entertaining.

The old commercials Apple used to put out about I'm a Mac and I'm a PC were extremely funny...if you havent seen them, go on You Tube.


Ok, I will stop the Mac stuff....I have an ESXI server here at home running on an Intel NUC and guess what, I have 3 Linux Distros installed...No Windows....yet...but I can if I have to......

Thanks for the replies...;)
 
Oh, and as stated previously, my EPROM programming 'station' runs DOS :) with my fileserver serving storage to DOS via NFS. DOS haters need not reply :)

DOS??? Isnt that Denial of Service? ;)

As in, the programmer doesnt work? hehe

Just kidding.....how old is your programmer? I recall an old old one running on a Tandy Color Computer back in the 90's when i visited an old arcade repair shop in my hometown.

I am also amazed you have a fileserver running NFS....Data has moved to the cloud nowadays so fileservers are seen less and less.

But good stuff.....
 
Who's got the signature about "cocksure"? Mark S. maybe?

[edit]Found it...

"The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."—Bertrand Russell
 
troubydoobydoo, the programmer is old....

It uses an 8 bit ISA card and the programmer connects to that card with a db25 cable. No external power brick, it gets all of it's power form the host PC.

If I had to guess, I'd guess early 1980s.

I believe it came out in the days of the PC and PC/XT, but could have still been in production during the AT.

Works just fine on an old Tandy 2500 SX/33.

It handles old stuff well.
 
I am also amazed you have a fileserver running NFS....Data has moved to the cloud nowadays so fileservers are seen less and less.

false. i prefer to be the owner of my own data, not to whore it out to some data lake in
some random country that could deny me access of it at any given time. plus, more
importantly, i rather not pay those assholes a monthly fee, tyvm.
 
false. i prefer to be the owner of my own data, not to whore it out to some data lake in
some random country that could deny me access of it at any given time. plus, more
importantly, i rather not pay those assholes a monthly fee, tyvm.


You'd rather just deny yourself (and all of KLOV) access, lol.

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=393714&page=4



(BTW, what troubydoobydoo said wasn't 'false'. You may have a different opinion about your own data. But that doesn't change the validity of what he said.)
 
false. i prefer to be the owner of my own data, not to whore it out to some data lake in
some random country that could deny me access of it at any given time. plus, more
importantly, i rather not pay those assholes a monthly fee, tyvm.

What Andrewb said. ;)

Certainly you can do what you want with your data, just saying the market as a whole is moving to cloud.

And, those are good points you make about fees and access.....the flip side is what happens if someone were to snatch your laptop from your car and all your data was local....or if the hard drive crashed?

(Both events happened to me in the past year and both events sucked big time)

In my car break-in case, work laptop was taken, data wasnt local, but it was still a big PITA....my passport was in the same bag.....

Recovering from both was super simple since I just rejoined the cloud and all my data returned....whew....

Dropbox lets you keep two copies...local and cloud....so anyway, just saying, these are key points in the pro-cloud argument..vs against, which I see you are and its a free country..no worries...I had to live through a couple of sucky experiences so for me, cloud helps.

I will be getting an eeprom eraser and programmer soon...I am just reading through these threads and watching Johns Arcade and other You Tube videos to see what will work the best.....It sounds like I need to spin a Windows install on my ESXi server to make this happen......
 
Recently upgraded my main programmer to a Data I/O Unisite with Site48 and SetSite modules. This thing is a beast, a goddamn sexy one. Software runs on Windows XP, or you can drive the whole thing from a serial terminal. Programs PALs, GALs, EPROMs from 2708 up to 27C4096, and tons more. Really awesome machine.

Seconded. Now if I or somebody else could figure out how to make custom device definitions it'd also make a pretty nifty device tester :)
 
I don't think any cloud providers have drivers to make the contents available as a drive letter under DOS !

:)

I have a Linux server, so it makes it easy for me to do NFS. It has Samba as well, but I didn't find any good software for mounting a SMB share under DOS, so being that I worked for Sun and had a copy of PC-NFS I went that route. Makes it very easy to share files.... when I want them accessible to the burner, I just scp them into place.

What wasn't easy was getting pcnfsd working on a modern Linux.... and I still don't have it playing with iptables and selinux.... (I just temporarily disable those when I use the rom burner).
 
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