First i would like to apologize if this topic is covered somewehere on this forum or arduino website. I just could not find it.
I am a beginner at arduino, and I am trying to make my own. The biggest problem is of course the bootloader. Since i have no avr programmers, I was happy to see that Parallel Port Programmer exists. But I am not sure where to go from here. So I have a "raw" Amega8 or atmega168(this even works with paralle programmer?) chip. Now if I understand this corectly I should just connect atmega on a breadboard and look for ISP(or ISCP what is the diffrence?!) pins and connect them to lpt port on my computer? So if I am reading this schematic of a arduino corectly, this is just pin 17 18 and 19 of my atmega chip(and of course all the resistors, voltages etc...) Then i will have a bootloader on my chip and from there i could start programing my arduino...
Am I correct, or am I doing something wrong?
P.s. Sorry for my bad english.