Re: [Flashforth-devel] Microchip Dev-Tool Deal boards

[Mikael N. <mik...@fl...>]

Hi Craig,
I (almost) never used any evaluation boards from Mchip.
These are made by folks whose business is to sell evaluation boards and 
demo apps.
I have own boards where I can plug in 20 and 28 pin PIC18/24/30/33 DIP 
chips.

Glad I (FF) still has users.
Many go down the ARM and MeCrisp lane,
but I had never had the need for so much embedded processing power.

I like the simplicity of the PIC18 and PIC24 architectures.
Well, at least they are simple to me since I know them :-)
And I still build one off boards where DIP rules (bad eyesight).

Never tried MplabX 5.40 and from the sound of it seems I will not need 
to either.
Or maybe one can use older mpasmx versions with it ?

I have not got around to supporting the PIC18Q43 chips yet. They require 
changes in FF.
The flash writing is different, and the registers are moved to the 
beginning of ram.
I have some of those chips, but PICKIT4 is required and I don't have one 
(yet).
When I was looking for PICKIT4 it was in short supply due to COVID19.

BR Mike