Manually added boards doesn't work in 1.8.5…? I'm trying to manually add board definitions in a boards.txt file in hardware subfolder of my sketches folder as per instructions here for instance: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP

They however do NOT show up in my board selection.

My sketches location where hardware subfolder should be placed:



Board defs:

~/D/Arduino ❯❯❯ cat ~/Documents/Arduino/hardware/boards.txt
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atmega328bb.name=ATmega328 on a breadboard (8 MHz internal clock)

atmega328bb.upload.protocol=arduino
atmega328bb.upload.maximum_size=30720
atmega328bb.upload.speed=57600

atmega328bb.bootloader.low_fuses=0xE2
atmega328bb.bootloader.high_fuses=0xDA
atmega328bb.bootloader.extended_fuses=0x05

atmega328bb.bootloader.file=atmega/ATmegaBOOT_168_atmega328_pro_8MHz.hex
atmega328bb.bootloader.unlock_bits=0x3F
atmega328bb.bootloader.lock_bits=0x0F

atmega328bb.build.mcu=atmega328p
atmega328bb.build.f_cpu=8000000L
atmega328bb.build.core=arduino:arduino
atmega328bb.build.variant=arduino:standard


atmega328bb.bootloader.tool=arduino:avrdude
atmega328bb.upload.tool=arduino:avrdude


BUT nothing show here:



I have restarted Arduino IDE.
Newer versions of the IDE (after 1.5) have a different folder structure where there is additional subfolders for maintainer and architecture.

&lt;Arduino sketch folder&gt;/hardware/&lt;custom name&gt;/avr/boards.txt


https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Arduino-IDE-1.5-3rd-party-Hardware-specification