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I know this must be a dumb question amidst all the professional
microcontroller programming questions I see here.

But can someone tell me if there is a way to program the BASIC Stamp
2sx, with something other than the BASIC Stamp software which
parallax provides ?

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You cannot program the BASIC Stamp in another language, if that's what
you're asking. If you're looking for 3rd party tools for other
platforms (Mac, Linux), they're starting to show up. Check here:

http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/downloads/software/software_basic_sta
mp.asp

If you're a C or Java programmer, our Javelin Stamp may interest you.

http://www.parallax.com/javelin/index.asp

-- Jon Williams
-- Applications Engineer, Parallax
-- Dallas Office

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I know this must be a dumb question amidst all the professional
microcontroller programming questions I see here.

But can someone tell me if there is a way to program the BASIC Stamp
2sx, with something other than the BASIC Stamp software which
parallax provides ?




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You do know that the Parallax software is free,
right?

The Parallax package is excellent for simplicity,
ease of use, ease of debugging, and reliability.
It does have limitations in speed, and it can be
pricey if used in large quantities.

Buy any other alternative to it has a larger
startup cost (Language, Target Board, Processor,
assembler, debugger, etc). From this you can
get faster performance, with some more work,
and cheaper processors.

Programming the BS2sx with some other
development system seems to be combining the
worst aspects of both -- a longer learning
curve, and an expensive solution at the end
of it.

Having said that, there ARE ways to use the
'tokenizer' DLL to program the chip on-the-fly,
if that's what you want to do.

--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "vibeesh_bose"
<vibeesh_bose@y...> wrote:
> I know this must be a dumb question amidst all the professional
> microcontroller programming questions I see here.
>
> But can someone tell me if there is a way to program the BASIC
Stamp
> 2sx, with something other than the BASIC Stamp software which
> parallax provides ?