Hi Bob, Funny to see my name pop up after all these years. I still program in assembler using MPLAB 8.92. The latest project being an emulator for 17 of the 1970's - 80's HP LED calculators and the HP01 calculator watch. I even saw my old PIC programmer (which I am still using right now for a PIC16F1519) appear on the HP museum forum just recently. I am still pulling my hair out too when unexplained things stop code working for no apparent reason, like for the last few hours on the aforementioned PIC. Still, it keeps the grey matter from turning into don't matter :-) cheers Tony On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Bob LeDoux wrote: > Back in days of yore there were people with names like Nixon, Datallo, My= ke creating elegant routines to perform difficult tasks with 8-bit PIC's in= assembler. > > I don't depend on system development for my income. So I still enjoy pro= jects for the challenge. For example, I developed a version of Conway's Ga= me of Life using a 64 x 128 graphic LCD powered by a 16F88--programmed in a= ssembler. > > I wonder, am I the only person left using a PicKit2, with MPLAB IDE 8.xx,= assembler programming 12F and 16F chips? My chips only have 2 or 3 numbe= rs following the "F"? > > Am I the only person who sometimes uses absolute code and prefers to Quic= kbuild my programs rather than build a project? > > Those were the characteristics that encouraged beginners to move to PIC's= after playing with the Parallax Basic Stamp. With linked files and project= s, those days are gone. Systems like the Arduino mean programmers are slow = to grasp processors at the machine level. > > By the way, I used this question as an excuse to post with a topic identi= fier [PIC]. I haven't seen many of those lately on the [PIC] list. > > -- > Bob LeDoux > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .