Martin McCormick wrote 2013-03-23 13:59:
> Christopher Head writes:
>> Will gputils not serve the purpose if you are looking for an assembler?
>> I have no idea which parts it supports versus which parts you are
>> interested in, but it seems to work OK for me. For simulation there is
>> also gpsim, but I have not tried it.
>
> 	Thank you. This is a great help because I suspect I am
> more likely to get gpasm and gpsim working than I am to get
> mplab-x working.
>
> 	I do not presently have a working X environment in Linux
> although one system I have should run it but refuses to so far.
>
> 	gputils and gpsim appear to be in the same linage as
> what I originally had on here so this should get me back to
> where I was before more than likely.
>
> 	As for the parts, nothing really exotic-- PIC16F84's,
> 16F628's and several really old PIC's that are UV-erasable.

That's probably OK if you are supporting some old project/applications.
Or if you are one of this retro-computing guys. :-)
That's OK, I make my living from supporting VMS systems...

But if it is for general hobbyist style things, you should note
that the new PIC12F1xxx and PIC16F1xxx families is just so much
better, more powerfull and much easier to work with.

Jan-Erik.

> I might as well use them in simple projects as they don't spoil.
> I think the PicStart plus will program every PIC I presently
> have in the parts cabinet so all that is needed is working
> software to drive the programmer.
>
> 	Again, thanks.
>
> Martin
>
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