Stamp /PIC Migration 2

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Thanks all, for the help. I also have a few of the Atmel chips. One
of the areas in this can of worms (MPLAB/WARP 13) is that a good C
compiler for many of the PIC's (16F628) is either non existant or
very expensive. Since my Basic is better than C, the idea of using
the former is looking likely. Right now, I'm brain saturated with the
many ways of going. The need for a 3 to 6 dollar chip seems to be the
driving force since anything more than this makes many of the smaller
projects unsound.

Archiver

If you already have some AVR chips, you might want to try the STK500
dev board. It comes with 2 midrange chips (AT90S8515 and
ATMega163), and supports just about every chip on-board. The 64-pin
chips can be used with the STK501 addon, though they are about
$15/each. You can get some of the chips, like the 2313, on ebay for
much lower than the normal price.

If you want basic, you should try BASCOM-AVR
www.mcselec.com
You can download the demo free there, and it will let you make
enough code to fill an AT90S2313.
PicBasic Pro is about $300 if I remember right. I used to have a
different Basic PIC compiler that I got from my friend who moved on
to AVR, but I never used it because I started with AVR myself!

--- In basicstamps@y..., "singlewire" <singlewire@y...> wrote:
> Thanks all, for the help. I also have a few of the Atmel chips.
One
> of the areas in this can of worms (MPLAB/WARP 13) is that a good C
> compiler for many of the PIC's (16F628) is either non existant or
> very expensive. Since my Basic is better than C, the idea of using
> the former is looking likely. Right now, I'm brain saturated with
the
> many ways of going. The need for a 3 to 6 dollar chip seems to be
the
> driving force since anything more than this makes many of the
smaller
> projects unsound.