I use picasm as the assembler, and picp which talks to my Picstart Plus
Programmer. Works great, faster than MPLab on windows.

Another programmer I know uses MPLab under wine on linux with good
success.

(And if you hate the MPLab IDE, but want the "official" assembler,
MPASM.EXE works great under wine, while you still get your preferred
work environment)

If you don't have a Picstart Plus programmer, then picprg can be used to
talk to a cheap parallel port programmer. (Like the noppp unit
http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/noppp/ , which is easily modified to
work with the 16F876 and 16F877 pics. )

On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 18:14, Titus Barik wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Khalid Swesseh wrote:
>
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I want to start working with PIC,I heared that the PIC16f84 is the
> > > best one to start with
> > > But there are alot of KITs and Compilers to use
> > >
> > > What do you recommend ?
>
> Jumping in on this thread:
>
> I'm also a beginner who is interested in PIC programming. However, I
> also have the additional requirement that the software I use must run
> under Linux and be free or (better) GPL.
>
> >From these requirements, can someone recommend to me a good
> microcontroller and software setup?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Titus Barik (barik@techspot.com)
> AIM: TBarik  ICQ: 1604453
>
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