ASPIC, the version of the Macro+ Assembler for PIC processsors is a
powerful tool for programming all flavors of the Microchip PIC family. It is
provided with a very liberal shareware license to ensure that you will have
ample oportunity to test it before you buy!  The shareware version is a complete,
unlimited, full featured copy of the entire program with no limitations at all.

This is a very stable product which, while it has been improving over the
years, has been around since 1986.  The PIC version has been in use for over
3 years, with only 3 reported bugs in released versions (none outstanding as of
this writing).   

It has the features that people have been asking for and lamenting the lack of
in other assemblers! Here are just some of it's powerful features:

        - One assembler for 16c5X, 16c6x, 16c7X, 16c8X, 17c42
        - Compatable with PICSIM (MPSIM)
        - Compatable with MAKE, and with auto-error tracking editors
        - Many times faster than PICALC (MPALC)
        - Standard base notation (Intel & Motorola format eg. $23 or 023H)
        - Powerful CODE and FUNCTION macro support
        - Auto register bank management
        - Text/data translation
        - Automaticly generates RETLW tables for text and data tables
        - Built-in version management and assembly control functions
        - User command-line switches
        - Can prompt inputs from keyboard under software control
        - Bit labels
        - Segment management macros eliminate code overflow problems
        - Automatic, user-defined character set translations
        - 5 to 20 times faster than other assemblers
        - Fully command line / makefile controled with built-in help
        - No unexpected prompts at compile time!
        - User environment variables and command line options
        - Macros can override assembler instructions and directives
        - many other features
        - Registered users get a utility to plot waveforms from MPSIM!
        - No reserved words!
        - allows writing portable code accross the PIC family
        - 69 Assembler directives
        - many more features
        
Macro+ Assembler is also available in source-compatable versions for Mitsubishi
MELPS 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers and for the NEC 78C10.

For mor information, look for ASPICDOC.ZIP (docs only), or ASPIC.ZIP (full
package).

Don Lekei
BBS (604)597-3479
CIS 72677,2623
Internet 72677.2623@compuserve.com