On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, James Newton wrote:

> As no one seems to be jumping at the chance to work with you on the
> simulator, (HELLO!? Do you understand what he offered?) I'd like to at least
> post what ever information you are willing to share at the
> http://www.piclist.com
> site for future interested parties.
>
> Scott? where are you?

Who? me? I've been too busy working on your challenge! :)


There are several problems with Darrel's offer. First dll's are totally
useless to me since I can't use them under Linux. I don't bother with
windows anymore unless I have too. Second, as Darrel has repeatedly said,
mpsim is primarily an instruction simulator. gpsim already does that.
Third, without the source I have no desire to use mpsim. If I had the
source, then I could merge gpsim into mpsim's api, gpl the result and even
the window's users could benefit from gpsim's efforts. But it ain't gonna
happen.

I admire Darrel's efforts, but quite frankly this is not an important
issue in the grand scheme of things. MPSIM works fine for 90% of the users
(that's a presumption on my part). There's too much risk and effort in
trying to satisfy the remaining 10%. Besides, there ARE other solutions
like UMPS and gpsim that already out there.

Scott