Mike,
> He had apparently came up with a programming solution using an external
> USB breakout box. I thought avrdude was supposed to work too, maybe Brian
> could answer that...
I tried that, had no end of hassle, but I'm new to open source work.
> How painful is that?
its beautiful...
Drag and drop from OSX desktop to windows desktop, shared resources, etc...
and its pretty smooth.
> FWIW, I once ran PC-Ditto on an Atari ST. Talking about slow...
well, VPC7 won't win any speed awards, but its fast enough to run OrCAD and
CV-AVR without being annoying.
Paul