I have update the PIC develepment environment available at
http://www.embedinc.com/pic.  This version adds support for the new 8 pin
PICs, the 12F629 and the 12F675.  These are really 16 family PICs with a
slightly different RAM architecture.  They have two RAM banks, but all the
general RAM is mapped to the same memory from both banks.  Most PIC 16
parts either have nothing mapped in common or offsets 70h - 7Fh of each
bank.

This is not related to PICs, but just for fun I also added a chess program
to the downloads available at http://www.embedinc.com/pic/dload.htm.  I
wrote this program a few years ago to investigate computer chess
algorithms.  The position evaluator is deliberately seperable from the GUI
and all the basic mandatory things like the legal move generator.
Eventually I plan on releasing a software development kit so anyone can
create their own position evaluator and just plug it in without having to
deal with the remaining rote mechanics of a chess program.  It's harder to
beat on the default 2 moves lookahead than you might imagine.  I think
that's because it responds fairly quickly, causing you to get sloppy, at
least that's my excuse.  It's no challange for serious chess players, but
others might have some fun with it.


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