I agree ... a piece of rubbish! That explains why ATMEL distributes it. (... getting down from soapbox ...)

There are free copies of the AMD PALASM-IV or MACHXL floating around everywhere. They work, probably as well as any DOS-based program of this type, and, in my experience, that's WAY better than anything that was designed for Windows.

I've been using it since the '80's and, while I still don't fully understand all its wrinkles, consider it the program of choice for producing configuration (jedec) files for PLD's. The only thing I've ever found odd is that they use ":+:" for XOR.

Though I had a copy (somewhere), the last one I gave someone was downloaded, and works very well.

It will handle up to and including all of the 5-volt MACH-2 family of SPLD's and CPLD's from AMD, and produce files with which you can program nearly any manufacturer's equivalent of the "old-standard" PALs.

RE