CardPro

CardPro is a small Windows application designed specifically for working hand in hand with the Argolis RS232 smartcard reader.

The tool supports reading/writing of the cards and gives you the possibility to work with several smartcards, such as Titanium, MII, KNOT, Funcard, Jupiter1, Jupiter2, GoldCard, and PicCard2. Plus, it includes the RS232 card reader which can be used as a programmer for EEPROM, AVR and PIC.

The main panel of the utility looks clean and reveals a well-organized suite of features. You are allowed to select the card type, pick the Flash memory and EEPROM, and import data from ZIP, HEX or ZIP file format. Plus you can choose an external EEPROM and add info from HEX, BIN, ZIP or CRD file format.

What’s more, you are allowed to read and write data, erase or verify, automatically detect the card, read or write fuses, as well as configure several settings related to the automatic port detection, loader clock speed, beep notifications at the end of a task, and EEPROM HEX file creation.

The tool lets you save Flash and internal EEPROM to one file, use default configuration card settings for PIC programming, and get information about the card (processor, program memory size, internal and external EEPROM size) and buffer (program checksum, internal and external EEPROM checksum).

Last but not least, CardPro integrates a text editor where you can type in custom messages in the main window or paste the information from the clipboard.

Plus, you are allowed to perform basic editing tasks (cut, copy, paste, delete), read or write a card, import/export data from/to plain text file format, print the text, undo your actions, perform searches, switch between Goldcard and Funcard, as well as generate text data information about the text sixe, compressed size and ratio, EEPROM size, and used EEPROM space.

To sun things up, CardPro comes with an interesting feature pack for helping you manage smartcards and easily read, write, erase or verify data. On the downside, it hasn't been updated for a while, so you it may cause compatibility issues on newer operating systems.