Avrdude doesn't work with ATtiny1634 on MacOS with boards version 1.6.206

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Hi!
First of all I was not able to figure out where you guys host your avrdude source + files, so I'd rather post the issue here. There's been a longer discussion over at the [ATTinyCore repo about the ATtiny1634](https://github.com/SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore/issues/158#issuecomment-369315512) and why it didn't work with avrdude. Turned out the main issue was a bug in the official avrdude.conf file, but I discovered something else too. I'm not able to use avrdude that's included in 1.6.206 to burn bootloader and upload to the ATtiny1634, not even with the corrected version of avrdude.conf. Avrdude that ships with IDE 1.8.5 works just fine.

I guess the output speaks for itself:

**Serial upload with Avrdude that's included with 1.6.206:**
```
/Users/Hans/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avrdude/6.3.0-arduino12/bin/avrdude -C/Users/Hans/Documents/Arduino/hardware/ATTinyCore/avr/avrdude.conf -v -pattiny1634 -carduino -P/dev/cu.wchusbserial1410 -b115200 -Uflash:w:/var/folders/2f/bk0yr6zx4290kvkss8ty0gxc0000gn/T/arduino_build_808372/Blink.ino.hex:i

System wide configuration file is "/Users/Hans/Documents/Arduino/hardware/ATTinyCore/avr/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/Users/Hans/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

Using Port : /dev/cu.wchusbserial1410
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
Setting bit clk period : 5.0
AVR Part : ATtiny1634
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PB3
BS2 : PB1
RESET disposition : possible i/o
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :

Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
eeprom 65 5 4 0 no 256 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 16384 32 512 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

Programmer Type : Arduino
Description : Arduino
Hardware Version: 3
Firmware Version: 6.2
Vtarget : 0.3 V
Varef : 0.3 V
Oscillator : 28.800 kHz
SCK period : 3.3 us

avrdude: stk500_initialize(): n_extparms 4 mayor 6 minor 2
avrdude: stk500_initialize(): n_extparms = 4
trying to set bitclock at 5.000000
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude done. Thank you.

Problem uploading to board. See http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#upload for suggestions.
```

**Serial upload with avrdude that ships with IDE 1.8.5:**
```
$ /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -C/Users/Hans/Documents/Arduino/hardware/ATTinyCore/avr/avrdude.conf -v -pattiny1634 -carduino -P/dev/cu.wchusbserial1410 -b115200 -Uflash:w:/var/folders/2f/bk0yr6zx4290kvkss8ty0gxc0000gn/T/arduino_build_808372/Blink.ino.hex:i

Programmer Type : Arduino
Description : Arduino
Hardware Version: 3
Firmware Version: 6.2
Vtarget : 0.3 V
Varef : 0.3 V
Oscillator : 28.800 kHz
SCK period : 3.3 us

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9412 (probably t1634)
avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 0
avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: reading input file "/var/folders/2f/bk0yr6zx4290kvkss8ty0gxc0000gn/T/arduino_build_808372/Blink.ino.hex"
avrdude: writing flash (1044 bytes):

Writing | ################################################## | 100% 1.77s

avrdude: 1044 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against /var/folders/2f/bk0yr6zx4290kvkss8ty0gxc0000gn/T/arduino_build_808372/Blink.ino.hex:
avrdude: load data flash data from input file /var/folders/2f/bk0yr6zx4290kvkss8ty0gxc0000gn/T/arduino_build_808372/Blink.ino.hex:
avrdude: input file /var/folders/2f/bk0yr6zx4290kvkss8ty0gxc0000gn/T/arduino_build_808372/Blink.ino.hex contains 1044 bytes
avrdude: reading on-chip flash data:

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 1.60s

avrdude: verifying ...
avrdude: 1044 bytes of flash verified

avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 0
avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK (E:00, H:00, L:00)

avrdude done. Thank you.
```

**Attempt to burn bootloader using 1.6.206:**
```
/Users/Hans/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avrdude/6.3.0-arduino12/bin/avrdude -C/Users/Hans/Documents/Arduino/hardware/ATTinyCore/avr/avrdude.conf -v -pattiny1634 -cusbtiny -e -Uefuse:w:0xFE:m -Uhfuse:w:0xD7:m -Ulfuse:w:0xEF:m

Using Port : usb
Using Programmer : usbtiny
Setting bit clk period : 5.0
avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found USBtinyISP, bus:device: 020:010
AVR Part : ATtiny1634
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PB3
BS2 : PB1
RESET disposition : possible i/o
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :

Programmer Type : USBtiny
Description : USBtiny simple USB programmer, http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/
avrdude: programmer operation not supported

avrdude: Setting SCK period to 5 usec
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions