Hi, unfortunately, I did not use it yet. However, as the matter of the fact: it is not shareware, but it is freeware. See the Read.me file! It makes a reasonable difference! Imre On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Bill Kichman wrote: > Has anybody had any luck using the shareware PICBAS.COM PIC > Basiccompiler written by Chris Burns of Georgia? I'd like to keep costs > down and start programming the '84 PIC with Basic, at least until I have > some experience under my belt. Or should I spend the time getting used > to C? > >