Bob Blick wrote:
> I was one of the early adopters of HiTech but soon after their switch to
> online activation I stopped buying maintenance and reverted to the final
> "non phone home" version.
> 
> Now when I need to add an unsupported part I create the device files
> myself. 
> 
> If you can make do with the memory limitations of the old PICC-LITE you
> can probably use it on the 16F616 or 12F615 the same way.
> 
> So far that method has worked fine for me on the commercial version of
> HT-PICC, but I suppose someday there will be a part that is too
> different for it to work - then I'll either switch to CCS or use gcc on
> an AVR/MSP430/other.
> 
> I did try the new version of HiTech to see if it generated better code -
> it didn't. But I was testing on a 14 bit core, which I don't think
> benefits much from OCG.
> 
> Cheerful regards,
> 
> Bob

You might look into mikroelektronika... they have full operating free 
versions of their compilers that have, as un-licensed versions, a 2k 
compiled code limit.  Since many of the low range PIC16F family parts 
have 2K or less memory, you can see if it will do your job for you at 
very little out-of-pocket expense... and not much out-of-your-head 
expense either ;>


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