When I presented the software for the EPROM Programmer back in the February 2003 issue of SILICON CHIP, I had spent quite a bit of time writing and debugging it. So when we published it, we thought it was pretty free of bugs.

Well, it’s probably not surprising that once people began to use the software, the first version turned out to have a few minor bugs. I discovered one myself, when I went to program a bunch of 512KB EPROMs recently. So there was nothing for it but to fire up Visual Basic 6.0, track those bugs down and fix ’em.

While I was at it, I also took the opportunity to make a few small improvements to the program. So we have now been able to put an updated and revised Version 1.3 of the software on the SILICON CHIP website, ready to be downloaded and installed by anyone who has built the EPROM Programmer. You’ll find it in a single 1.7MB zipped-up file called EPROMProgV13.zip at the bottom of this article, but if you’d like to look at a copy of the VB6 source code, this is also available as a PDF file (EPROMProgV13.pdf).