At 06:42 AM 12/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
>The real reward is that then you (and everyone else) would have
>a PIC/hard-disk interface to use! That would be cool!
>
>But I agree with you completely about the restriction of using
>hi-tech C. The whole thing would be more useful to everyone, I
>think, if written in assembly. The contest rules do allow for that,
>if you can argue the point sufficiently well.

How well is sufficiently well?  As far as I'm concerned, beggars can't be
choosy.  Getting someone to code this project in any programming language
for the chance at getting dirt (vs. the real value of such code) would be a
feat in itself.  Of course, I wouldn't want to code something so massive in
assembly language anyway.

Frankly, for a project that is on that large of a scale I don't see the
payback as being worthwhile.  While it may not be the case, it just appears
to me that they are trying to sucker people into doing their hard work for
them.

I don't think 21 days is enough to get acquainted with the HT compiler in
demo mode and complete such a massive project, so that would mean owning
the compiler, others did note that it was probably the most expensive
compiler for the chip.

Jeff

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