It worked pretty well. Fuses and everything are done from a command prompt. I set up the programmer so that I could drag a hex file into the shortcut and it would program the device.
But now, AVR Studio supports the newer ATTiny chips, and I have an STK500 which I use with a USB-RS232 converter.
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In the recent past I've used
In the recent past I've used a simple parallel port programmer with avrxtool command-line programmer software from Elm-chan: http://elm-chan.org/works/avrx/report_e.html
It worked pretty well. Fuses and everything are done from a command prompt. I set up the programmer so that I could drag a hex file into the shortcut and it would program the device.
But now, AVR Studio supports the newer ATTiny chips, and I have an STK500 which I use with a USB-RS232 converter.