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TL866II+ minipro update.dat? [message #9194]

Tue, 12 October 2021 10:31

mikemac
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Registered: March 2017

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I just bought a TL866II+ from Amazon (my old eeprom programmer requires Windows XP! Wink

and I'm trying to use David Griffith's minipro SW: https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/minipro/

It nags me about my firmware being out of date:

=>minipro -p sst39sf040 -D
Found TL866II+ 04.2.86 (0x256)
Warning: Firmware is out of date.
  Expected  04.2.126 (0x27e)
  Found     04.2.86 (0x256)
Chip ID OK: 0xBFB7

Does anyone know where I can find the 04.2.126 version of the update.dat file so I can update my programmer? I do not want to install some program from China on a Windows machine and have it magically update things. I'm paranoid. I don't trust the Internet nor Windows! And I'm trying to get away from using Windows if at all possible.

Thanks,

Mike

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Re: TL866II+ minipro update.dat? [message #9195 is a reply to message #9194]

Tue, 12 October 2021 17:53

techdad
Messages: 2
Registered: August 2020
Location: Virginia, USA

Junior Member

Take a look at the very bottom of this readme.md:

https://github.com/blurpy/minipro

Copying that section of the notes here (note, you don't need to run the .exe file, just unrar it to extract the data file contained in it):

You wont find the firmware as a standalone download, so you need to download the Windows software Xgpro from the homepage. Unrar the downloaded file to find a Windows executable. Unrar the executable to find the firmware file updateII.dat.

$ unrar x XgproV1008_setup.rar
$ unrar x XgproV1008_Setup.exe
It's also possible to extract the files using the website https://extract.me/

Update the firmware like this:

$ minipro -F updateII.dat

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Re: TL866II+ minipro update.dat? [message #9196 is a reply to message #9195]

Wed, 13 October 2021 07:50

mikemac
Messages: 250
Registered: March 2017

Senior Member

Ah! Neat trick! That worked and I'm now up to date!

And that Blurpy github page is full of interesting info.

Many thanks!

Mike

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