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Sorry for the repost, but I just realized that
there was no subject line initially and this
will be hard to find without one.

        On Wed, 27 May 1998 14:55:50 +0200 David BALDWIN wrote:
> I am looking for some things:
>
>         1/ PIC asm and simulator under UNIX

My first cut was to get the most recent versions of the
DOS-based tools from Microchip running in DOSEMU on Linux.
        MPASM 2.01
        MPSIM 5.20

Looking at several Unix-based PIC assemblers it seemed that none
of them maintained compatibility with MPASM syntax.   So I
haven't followed up on this (yet), and am using MPSIM in
DOSEMU.

For simulators I've just been through this and have found that there
are several answers if you are going to only use 16C84 (or 16F84 while
keeping the differences in mind):

        - psim-0.1
                - Minimally featured, yet clean code.  Directly
                  reads INHX8M files.  No documentation.  Available at:
                          http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/pic/psim.html
        - picsim
                - Minimally featured, dependent upon a symbol table
                  file generated by it's sister package, picasm.
                  No documentation.  Available at:
                  http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/rsargent/picutils.html
        - nitpic
                - GUI/X version.  I didn't work out what kind
                  of input files it needed.  No documentation.
                  Available at the GNUPIC archive:
                          http://www.execpc.com/~rdmiller/gnupic/
        - simulpic
                - Closest to MPSIM in terms of functionality.
                  Minimal documentation, in Italian.  Available at:
                  http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pic.html

After looking at these, I am using MPSIM  in DOSEMU, but musing about
enhancements to simulpic.  In particular, adding symbol support
and a repeat last command function when you input an empty
line to the command parser.

David Stone