>Where do you get them from? Search on www.yahoo.com and look for PIC & Basic and PIC & Forth. >What is the best (easy-ish language, I/O, Basic Maths) interpreter to get, >and where from? Cost? What languages do you write? >How is this accomplished in a processor such as the PIC16F84 which is only 8 >bit.... Looking at the spec sheet I see that it deals with 8 bits of data, >and allows the remaining6 bits (of the 14 bit word) to be for the opcode. >how do I accomplish my goal? There is a "carry" bit which allows you to perform larger-than-8-bit maths in several steps. >Many thanks, And please be patient with my possibly "silly Questions", But I >f I don't ask... I'll probably go mad trying to figure it out. We were all newbies once. Andy