September 2019 Meeting Report

Big Cow Basic.

Andrew showed us Big Cow Basic

Ran a "blinky" on a PIC12F629 with switches to change the blink rate.

Big Cow Basic is free and comes with an IDE. There's also a visual Basic version..

In Blue Cow Basic we saw built-in support for I2C, LCD displays, RTC and DHT sensors.

Forth :

Flash Forth runs on PICs 18f and 24f and Atmels, so it will run on Arduino Uno

Real PIC Simulator.

Anthony showed us the Real PIC Simulator, costs $60.

Load hex or asm file and it will step through simulated execution.

SPFLite is his favourite editor.

And ZTreeWin for file and folder navigation.

Then we saw BATCH programming in windows command line to automate compiling and options.

And also clean up folders by deleting the unnecessary compiler output files.

A quick tour of MIPS assembler programming on the IBM risc/cisc processor.

(MARS is the MIPS emulator.)