Quote Originally Posted by Darrel Taylor View Post
They probably wanted to sell ICD2's without competition.
But now that half of Taiwan and Hong Kong, know how to clone it.
It's time they Pony'd up.
Hi Darrel,

(This info was in the Elektor magazine 10/2006).

The bootloader file BL010101.hex is part of MPLAB.
(\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\ICD2).
Use this file to flash the PIC16F877 present on a ICD2
clone and you are ready to use it. Note that the file will
not work with a 16F877A. If you click in the link below
you will see a list of links. From the link icd2clone.narod.ru
you can download a bootloader for the 16F877A. If you
use it, there is no warranty that your ICD2 clone will work
with new versions of MPLAB. So just use the original file
with a PIC16F877.

The above info was in the Elektor magazine 10/2006.
http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk...rt=53195&PN=On

I don't use PIC microcontrollers, I did not test the above.

Best regards,

Luciano