Hi,

I do not use it daily but tried out couple of times and each time I had the
conclusion that it is a great toy for beginners that can reduce the learning
curve, but nothing could be better than the real hw. If you thinking about
that you may also considering virtualbreadboard.com, it's something similar
with some LS74xx and other logic circuit simulation.

For professional use I'd go for MPLAB with learning the SCL and might worth
Proteus VSM - but that one maybe another zero or two at the end of the price
tag you mentioned. (MPLAB is free though). Oh, and you can use PicKit2 +
MPLAB for real hw debugging with some nice demo boards instead - that is
kind of the same price as with the Oshonsoft or the VirtualBreadboard, but
you will be able to measuring, touching and basically experiencing the same
hw problems you could face of during the fw development.

Good luck
Tamas



On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Marc Nicholas <geekything@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone using the Oshonsoft PIC18 simulator? The features seem to work
> for
> me (the array of virtual hardware is perfect for my needs) and tinkering
> with the demo version seems to yield the expected results.
>
> A simulator would cut down my development time considerably (I'm developing
> in Swordfish)...but I don't want to start using something that yields
> unexpected results or sends me on a wild goose chase when there's really no
> problem with my code -- even if that product only costs EUR49 for a
> commercial license.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -marc
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