Jesse Lackey wrote:
> Microchip's not really with the open-source movement, and they are 
> fading out in the cutting-edge hobby world too, IMHO.  The two main 
> reasons are: not documenting how debugging works on the 18F parts, so 
> while a programmer can be readily built, a 3rd party, from the ground up 
> ICD2 replacement cannot.  So there is a wall for projects beyond the 
> simple that aren't on Windows or where a $150 ICD2 isn't acceptable. 
> (say schools that want to buy 30 of them.)  Yes, there may be clones of 
> the ICD2 from companies that educational institutions wouldn't buy from, 
> and possibly convoluted unsupported ways of using the ICD2 on mac/linux. 
>   Irrelevant.
>
> The second reason is the lack of a free C compiler.  This isn't 
> microchip's fault in any way, but it is how it has turned out.  Again, 
> CCS may be pretty cheap for their (recently made available) limited
Jesse,  have you checked out Microchip site lately?  MPLAB C18 student 
version is free, but of course for the 18F family.





	
	
		
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