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Richard, I've only just started using the language and was using an older version of the book. I will be sure to read the updated version - thanks!

Richard, I've only just started using the language and didn't know about the include statement - thanks!

Hi Jim, I appreciate that Basic256 isn't designed for large programs, but something which supports modularity would be very welcome. It doesn't have to be sophisticated, just the ability to load previously written subroutines into the current program would be good enough. Anyway, thanks for all your work on Basic256, it's awesome.

Thanks all for the feedback and advice. I'm going with the pickit 2 as I won't be using any of the newer chips and reports are that it's more reliable than pickit 3. I've successfully built gcbasic on my old 32bit netbook running Debian stable. @ Anobium, I will get your PICkitPlus for Linux; do I need to install any additional libraries for it to work?

Thanks for the feedback. Never heard of LGT, and I can't find much info on them online either. Regarding my specific enquiry about PIC/AVR, it seems to me that PICs are easier to use with gcbasic and there is more documentation and tutorials about them online, so I think I'll go with PIC and the pickit2 programmer. I'm not really interested in boards like arduino and will be sticking to mainly 8 pin chips.

Thanks for the feedback. Never heard of LGT, and I can't find much info on them online either. Regarding my specific enquiry about PIC/AVR, it seems to me that PICs are easier to use with gcbasic and there is more documentation and tutorials about them online, so I think I'll go with PIC and pickit2 programmer. I'm not really interested in boards like arduino and will be sticking to mainly 8 pin chips.

I'd like to get into microcontrollers and stumbled across gcbasic which seems an easy way to get started, especially as I already use freebasic. I'm using a debian based distro (Q4OS) and have successfully installed gcbasic but I'm unsure as to whether to go for pic or avr. Am I right in assuming that gcbasic has better (more mature) support for pic? Also, there is the issue of hardware. Would I be better off going for the pickit 2 or pickit 3? They are both cheaply available from Ebay although not...

I'd like to get into microcontrollers and stumbled across gcbasic which seems an easy way to get started, especially as I already use freebasic. I'm using a debian based distro (Q4OS) and have successfully installed gcbasic but I'm unsure as to whether to go for pic or avr. Am I right in assuming that gcbasic has better (more mature) support for pic? Also, there is the issue of hardware. Would I be better off going for the pickit 2 or pickit 3? They are both cheaply available from Ebay although not...