Do you have a 6-Pin ISP connector on the board? You can buy a programmer on eBay for $2.00 and a 10-pin to 6-pin converter for another $1.00. That should allow you to use the Arduino 1.6.9 Really!!!! You want the current firmware and you want to use an up to date version of Arduino to build it.
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