Re: PicForth Bootloader Kit

David McNab wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As previously asked, I've put together a 'kit' for bootloading PicForth 
> programs.
> 
> http://www.freenet.org.nz/pic/picforth/bootloader.html
> 
> Kit includes:
>  - Samuel's serial-monitor.fs, with slight changes to suit 16F87xA chips
>  - PicForth include file, which causes PicForth to structure your
>    apps appropriately for bootloading
>  - example program - a 'hello, world' led-blinker
>  - 'pfd' - a downloader utility script (in python) - easy to use.
> 
> After a week of continually moving my PIC from proto board to programmer 
> for re-flashing, which took up to 3 minutes each time, it's bliss to be 
> now downloading progs to bootloader at 57.6kb/s, which takes only 
> seconds even for large programs.
> 

Very nice, David.

Which (of the many) boot loaders are you using.  I was hoping to use 
Wouter van Ooijen's WLoader.  DO you think it might work?

Thanks for your contribution!