An open source program for controlling the MiniPRO TL866xx series of chip programmers

• Compatibility with Minipro TL866CS and Minipro TL866A from Autoelectric (http://www.autoelectric.cn/)
• More than 13000 target devices (including AVRs, PICs, various BIOSes and EEPROMs)
• ZIF40 socket and ISP support
• Vendor-specific MCU configuration bits
• Chip ID verification
• Overcurrent protection
• System testing

$ minipro -p ATMEGA48 -w atmega48.bin
$ minipro -p ATMEGA48 -r atmega48.bin

You'll need some sort of Linux machine. Other Unices may work, though that is untested. You will need version 1.0.16 or greater of libusb. Debian 7 (Wheezy) users should do this to make sure you get the right version:

sudo apt-get -t wheezy-backports libusb-1.0-0-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential git fakeroot dpkg-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
git clone https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro.git
cd minipro
make
sudo make install

Building a Debian package directly from this repository is easy. Make sure you have the packages described above installed. Be sure it all builds, then do this:

sudo apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b

You should then have a .deb file for you to install with dpkg -i.