New flashloader and new flashing/flashw

From now on, our single board computers will come with a new flashloader. The old flashloader often caused problems with applications using the serial interface. If, after reset, accidently a character was received, the flashloader started instead of the application.

The new flashloader is no longer activated by a single character at the serial port after reset, but only when receiving the complete string "flashloader".

Some programmers want to use the MC683xx onchip watchdog. This requires a modified flashloader. A flashloader supporting the watchdog is now available for all targets with MC683xx processor.

For use with the new flashloader there is a new version of flashing for DOS, as well as a
Linux version.

With the new Windows program flashw it is now also possible to "flash" under NT, 2K and XP.

You can install the new flashloader yourself. The flashloader update package on our download page includes the new flashloaders for all targets (also the watchdog versions), flashing, flashw, sample programs for watchdog-mode and detailed update instructions.

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