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RE: [AVR-Chat] Re: (OT) PICAXE

2005-10-02 by Thomas Keller

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:07 -0700, Larry Barello wrote:
> Given that this is an AVR forum, not a PIC one, let me plug a product
> that I have found very useful:  BASCOM.  A free 4k limit compiler is
> available and supports most AVR chips.  The BASIC dialect is plenty
> powerful, lots of library support (LCD, one wire, switches, AT
> keyboard, graphics displays, etc) and runs circles around anything
> Parallax has to offer.  Full support (some specialized libraries and
> 128k limit) is $60, but I have never run out of space (granted I only
> use it for small quick projects).

  Only problem is I have never succeeded in getting anything to compile
in BASCM-AVR.   Has some strange syntactical requirements for declaring
variables, apparently.

tom

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