>>>>> If you plan on using a Windows environment, then you can use Microchip's >>>>> MPLAB PIC IDE and several different C compilers, all freeware. MPLABX >>>>> <...> >>>> Hi Doug: >>>> >>>> Thanks for the info... I just received the pickit 2 debug from microchip. >>>> Have the latest v. of MPLAB. Problem is that my software system is Windows >>>> 2000 with SP4. The pickit 2 software doesn't see the pickit 2 hardware >>>> pluged >>>> into the USB port. I know the port works. >>>> >>>> thanks: >>>> >>>> Bill >>>> >>>> >>> Bill: >>> >>> You do know how old Windows 2000 is in technology-years? Microsoft >>> terminated support two years ago. >>> >>> Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system :-) >>> >>> Did you have administrator privileges when you installed the driver? >>> Without a functioning driver, Windows 2000 won't admit your pickit >>> exists even if the port itself is electrically sound. Your smart drive >>> test was necessary but not sufficient. It exercises a different driver. >>> >>> Were I in your shoes, I'd install MPLAB X IDE in Linux and drive on >>> rather than arm-wrestle with W2K. To paraphrase what Admiral Farragut >>> never exactly said, "Damn the bugs, full speed ahead." >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kent >> >> Hi Kent: >> >> Thanks for the note. >> >> I am aware of the age of Windows 2000 as I used it in my business of >>computer >> animation in S. W. Florida. That was up to 2005 before I retired. >> >> I agree it is a pain but sense I am retired and this is a hobby, I used what >>I >> had on hand, as MPLAB listed the system software could be Windows 2000 or >>XP. > > Hi, Bill. > > My wife and I are retired as well and fully understand the financial > constraints. We choose to forgo many technology baubles in order to > spend more in other pursuits, like staying involved in our grandkids' lives. > > My wife, for example, is still using a Sony laptop we bought when she > was consulting a decade ago. She likes the full keyboard so much she > doesn't want to buy a new laptop. We're running Windows 2000 on it > because that's the latest version that has working drivers for it. > >> I put that Query on this web site about two weeks ago, asking if there was a >> complier that would work for programming the dspic's, under Linux. One of >>the >> fellows said that there was a compiler but it was a pain to get all the >>files, >> in place, that was needed to use it under Linux.. Being the novice that I >>am, >> not being a programmer, I thought it would be more of a challenge than I >>could >> overcome with my limited knowledge. >> >> However, I think I will give it a try as I like the Linux operating system >> much better that Windows. It reminds me of the Amiga operating system that I >> use to use for model building, ray tracing, and animation recording. > > Oh, man, a Amiga user. You really were serious about animation work. I > never had one but I drooled over the one my friend (also in video and > animation work) had. I have neither the eye nor the temperament for > graphics work. I envy those who do. > >> If I need some direction, are you willing to lend a bit of help once in a >> while? > > I and the rest of the LinuxCNC crowd are always available to kibitz. > Collectively, we know everything (and if it turns out we don't we can > still sympathize with you!). > > What direction did you decide to go---MPLAB or MPLAB X? And in Linux > directly or in Windows running as a virtual host in Linux? > > Of course, inquiring minds also want to know what you have in mind for > those dspics. > > >> Bill >> > > Good luck. > > Regards, > Kent
Hi Kent: Yes we are all for the grand kids too! Well I think I will go with Linux. The MPLAB I have just downloaded was 8.80. I purchased the Pickit 2 debug. The project is a brushed servo controller. Knowing me I think it will go beyond that, maybe BLDC. Then who knows what. Well Kent back in 1985 my wife and I opened an Amiga store in Florida. Because I used it for 3 D wire frame modeling, in my Architectural Illustration business. I thought it would really catch on. She and I went to Commodore's repair school so we could support the machine. We were authorized Video Toaster retaillers. Opened a larger store in a strip shopping center about 1989. I ran both businesses from that location. About the time we got rolling the Hi-way dept. started tearing up the main hi-way that went in front of our center. And the first war started. Mail order got going real strong and we were doomed. I could buy Commodore Hi-res monitors from mail order cheaper than I could buy from Commadore direct and we were authorized retailers with them. I hate loop holes!! It was a great machine, 1 main processor and 5 sub-processors. Multitasking for real and all on 512K ram. I networked the Amiga, with the Windows NT4.0, and the MAC Quadra 950, for all animation and video recording. Play back recording directly to Beta-cam in real time. I learned a lot, mostly not to get involved with the computer retail market. That lesson cost us dearly! Well anyway I will let you know how it goes. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
