Sheesh, you would think as long as the arduino mega1280/2560 boards have been available that the exact problem and or solution would have been well known and published by now? I sure it's not common to write sketches greater then 64KB but you think a few have had the need?
Sheesh, that makes 4 sheeshs now. I'm not too surprised that Arduinophiles in general aren't
writing too many programs over 64KB, but you'd think some might have. For my part, the
control s.w. for my robot tank exceeded 32KB code and 2KB RAM way last spring, so I've
wanted a larger space chip in a small size board [ala 1284 & UNO formfactor] to keep growing,
but even 64KB will be gone quickly. Hmmm.
It's also amazing the 1284 chips have been the object of 2000-3000 posts now on multiple
threads, and the limitations aren't flagged everywheres. Guess I'll have to learn how to
bypass the bootloader.
Is it possible to develop code using the Arduino IDE, with its libraries etc, and upload those
.hex files via a regular ICSP programmer, or will they not run without having the bootloader
to bootstrap off of?