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Chris Roper
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Posted: 12:31pm 27 Jun 2016

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For the 8Bit PIC and AVR users out there there is a new version of GCBasic posted today.

From the Dev Lead:

"We have released a new version of Great Cow Basic in June 2016.
Simply select the link below to download the latest release of Great Cow Basic.
Great Cow Basic IDE v0.95
You want the complete package; you want a complete installation of the IDE and GCGB.
This is the latest build with the Great Cow Basic compiler, the IDE and Great Cow Basic. This is a complete package. Contains demonstrations and seven microprocessor programmers (including the command line tools and GUI tools for the Microchip Pickit 2 & 3) for Microchip and AVR microprocessors @ ~58mb."

Download Great Cow Basic IDE v0.95

http://caroper.blogspot.com/

Chris Roper
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Posted: 12:39pm 27 Jun 2016

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What has changed in v.0.95.007 ? Well a lot. This has been a mega piece of work but here we go - it is a little list but there has been a lot of work to get the new functionality working.

The development team has published another release that further enhances the Great Cow Basic compiler capabilities.

Support for the Xpress Evaluation board including a host of demonstrations for the Xpress Evaluation board.

New GCB utility to load hex file into Microchip Xpress board.

Improved performance to increase productivity and to reduce compilation time. A lot faster!!

Improved string handling. Strings can be defined with escape characters like quotes and semi-colons.

New volatile bit can be defined that improves setting for specific bits.
Enhanced bit Not operator - now works with bit variables!

Further improvements to #option explicit.

Ethernet support for ENC28J60 adapter with a full TCPIP stack. This is a separate download.

Performance improvements to further improve productivity.

New optimisation options for A-D.h and PWM.h to reduce the size of generated asm and hex file.

Improved support for 900+ Microchip and Atmel 8-bit microcontrollers .

Microchip 10F, 12C, 12F, 16C, 16F, 18C and 18F devices. The LF devices are now automatically supported (no need for LF specific chip files).

AVR microcontrollers Classic AVR, Tiny AVR and Mega AVR devices.

Support for 16f85xx class of microcontroller plus changes to the supporting hardware files.

New commands to support PPS. LOCKPPS and UNLOCKPPS.

Improved software I2C support that now includes timeout when using software I2C Master.

An IDE to make programming as easy as possible including Help and IDE Helpers.

450+ demonstration files that showcase the breadth and depth of capabilities.

Check out the Help file

Check of the Release List.txt file. Look at the changes between change #230 to change #259.

Enjoy the release.Edited by Chris Roper 2016-06-28

http://caroper.blogspot.com/

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