Need a pic programming/IDE package like MPLAB for Win95

[crunchtime]

Hi,

I need to do some programming on the pic18f452, at my University laboratory.

However the comptuer at my lab bench will only run Windows 95.

MPLAB version 7 will only only install Windows 98SE or higher

I guess I could install an earlier version but there is no guarantee it will support the pic18f452.

Any suggestions? I guess I could live without an IDE and resort to a texteditor and the commandline, but are there any other options?

[moebius]

Hi,

My computer lost the ability to run MPLAB IDE (v 3.70) (and the most malware :)) as I manually removed IE from my 98SE system. Along the MPLAB install, there's MPASMWIN compiler which still runs.. I think it will run on W95 machines and requires no install by itself.. (so you could just copy it to another machine)

I didn't see any real advantages using MPLAB.. well, it gathers all source files under "a project" and has Microchip assembler highlighting.. (and if you have a supported programmer, it will program the PIC for you) Still it's pretty bloated for a 47MB, or something, install.

For now, I've settled using Programmers Notepad2 (http://www.pnotepad.org) but that's just an example.. I think that Jens' File Editor (http://home.t-online.de/home/Jens.Altmann/jfe_eng.htm) and  EditPad Lite (http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html) are popular choices too?!

There's no PIC assembler highlighting support for these that I know.. but at least PN2 supports creating your own "language schemes" for doing that.. and these also support calling external programs for compiling (and MPASMWIN can be called from the command line).

BYe, Moebius

[crunchtime]

RIght 9 Weeks on, just wanted to say thanks for the suggestion, it got me started on my project. Which has now had to be signed off on even though not fully complete :-(

But at least I feel confident PIC programming now, after having to set up a I2C bus, and a USART, and interrupts, relocatable code etc.

Although still a little stuck on that last one, memory maps have me a bit stumped

I did use MBLAB extensively at home, I thought its main benefit was the simulator, it was useful to measure time critical things with the stopwatch. And to be able to watch the values of registers through the program execution.

Though it became useless when trying to debug I2C code.

Thanks again.