I was playing around and found a US company selling microchips for playing pirated games

can you believe this ??? what are they thinking???

these chips blank sell for between $.50 and $1.50

http://www.mcminone.com/produc...s&product%5Fid=12C508

they have the 12c508/p chip but its not by microchip.com

LT anyone familiar with that logo and know what company that is ?

I still have my pic chip eprom programmer by microchip.com I think I had paid $400 for it. this is a professional device, you can copy or flash your own chips

if anyones interested let me know

That site sales lots of gaming hardware. THey are the main site that sales the 72 pin connectors that we see on ebay to all those resellers.
~~NGD

Are you sure that is the intended use of that chip and that it's not just a replacement part? Anyways MCM is a huge company, mainly for the industrial sector. It seems odd that they would be selling a modchip.

BTW, any particular reason you bought a professional programmer? I have a non-pro one, but it can do pretty much anything a pro one could do, and they are less than $50

when I had my internet business I was also selling modchips...they didnt have any generic programmers back in '98

thats the chip used for the sony playstation

BootGod, what do you use your programmer for ?

Mostly for EPROM's and FlashROM's. I've been wanting to start messing around with PIC-related stuff, but haven't yet :/

I just found a box of pink anti static bags...quantity 500 dimensions 4x6x4

would you be interested in this ?

no thanks, I have plenty of those damn things laying around already