This is the first time for me to 'officially' announce a gpsim release on
the PICLIST. The only reason I'm doing it now is because I feel that gpsim
has matured to the point of being somewhat useful (at least I use it).
However, it is not quite to the point of being user friendly as MPLAB or
UMPS. To be quite honest, you'll get more productive work out of those
products versus gpsim.

Why then would one want gpsim? Well... It runs under Linux, the source
code is freely available (GPL'd), and it's blazingly fast.

If you have questions you can either e-mail me or post them to the gnupic
mailing list.


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                    gpsim

      GNU Pic Simulator, a simulator for
      Microchip's PIC microcontrollers.


I've just uploaded a new release of gpsim to

http://www.interstice.com/~sdattalo/gnupic/gpsim-0.0.15.tar.gz
or goto the webpage:
http://www.interstice.com/~sdattalo/gnupic/gpsim.html

Also, you'll probably want to grab the latest release of gpasm
http://www.interstice.com/~sdattalo/gnupic/gpasm-0.0.7a.tar.gz
(This is an unofficial interim release of gpasm. I've been
unable to reach the author, James Bowman. When I do, we'll
get the patches into the main release.)

New features:

28JUL99 gpsim-0.0.15
 o gui - asm source browser
 o gui - program memory browser
 o gui - register viewer enhancements
 o gui - control menu
 o numerous bug fixes



README:
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Please see the README file for all of the details on the new features.
It also contains the closest thing to "documentation" that you'll find
for the new gui.

INSTALL:
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install gpsim the standard way:

tar -xvzf gpsim-0.0.15.tar.gz
./configure
cd gpsim-0.0.15/
make
su root
make install

this will expand into a child directory named gpsim-0.0.15 . From there
you can check the README, README.EXAMPLES, INSTALL, HISTORY, PROCESSORS
and TODO files for more information. The rest of the steps will build
gpsim and place the executable into /usr/local/bin . If you don't have
root privileges then you can copy the executable at gpsim-0.0.15/src/gpsim
to a directory in the execution path (you'll also want to copy
gpsim-0.0.15/xpms/*.xpm there as well).

If you have any questions, you know how to reach me...


Have fun!

Scott