I did upload the alpha 1.06 firmware on to a bare ATmega 8. The upload is successful. On using this chip in my usbasp, the board is now not recognised by windows. Attempt to load driver by Zadig fails for libusbK.
Also the power led on the board is not on when connected.
What can be the cause for this behaviour.
Actually the hex file did not download properly. Used the save as option on right click. what it saved was some HTML code. This became known after I opened the downloaded hex file in a text editor.
I then cloned the files through github desktop and voila I now have four souped up usbasps.
Thanks @ sleemanj, @bperrybap and @pert
Here is a pic. in the attachment
