very close, the characters for 8-16 are mapped like the second line of a 8x2
display.
set the DD Ram address to 0x40 (hex 40) and write the next 8 characters.

michael

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-----Original Message-----
From: Darkness <godofdarkness@MINDLESS.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 1:33 PM
Subject: 16x1 LCD Displays


>Hi all,
>I am currently working with a sharp 16x1 (hitachi hd44780a00 controller)
>and have just finished the program to run it. However i seem to have run
>into a problem.
>
>I can only get characters to display on the leftmost 8 chars of the
>display.
>
>Now after having looked at the datasheet for the controller i see it
>says the controller (hd44780) by itself can driver 1 x 8 lines or 2 x 8
>lines,  i assume that since my lcd modules only has one chip on it, that
>the 16x1 display may really 2x8 lines next to each other. is this
>true???
>also if this is the case is the start of the second line at 0x028???
>
>anyone got and ideas on the problem?
> thanx
>  Tim Lunn
>