Which is the best BASIC compiler for PIC Micro

[The Puma]

Please give me advice

 

[debutpic]

You will find a beginning of answer here

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My personal choice
1) pic basic plus
2) pic basic pro

 

[challenger]

I havent tried M BASIC yet, but of all the others I did try; I
would say that Pic Basic Pro is by far the best.

However the PBPro manual is terrible for beginners.

You must purchase a seperate picbasic book
to get the most out of this basic compiler. IE
"" Programming PIC Microcontrollers with PICBASIC ""

It all adds up to a hefty price tag, but in the end,
you will have few regrets if any.

Rgds
challenger

 

[ash]

my choice is pic basic pro

 

[ociredlu2]

I think pic basic pro

 

[elliot]

I used crownhills picbasic plus for a long time before I switched to ccs PCWH. It worked well for me.

 

[Prommer]

PicBasic Pro (Melabs) from Melabs, but it's more expensive.
PicBasic Pro (Melabs) with Microcode Studio Plus is a good solution.
You can generate Code in fastest Time.

PicBasic Pro from Melabs is not Quickbasic or Visualbasic like.

When you are a beginner then use C (Ansi-C). It is good for
portable code. It is the best way when you must work later
with another Controller (AVR, MCS-51, M16C,.....) .

Greetings
Prommer

 

[leemarrow]

Pic Basic Pro, the best

 

[tgq]

Well it depends ...
If you are a newcomer I think PB pro or PB plus are quite equivalent
If you want an easy-to-build-apps compiler (like VB for PC) , with many built-in functions then choose PB pro, but be conscient of its limitations (floating point, new libraries)
If you think about professional use then forget basic, learn asm and review C compilers.

 

[Fragrance]

hi

After version 2.13 pic basic plus its got better and generate quite compact code some good feature added my advise is that you are new commer and want to
undre sttand how micro controller can work or wnat to learn uc programming in quick way pic basic plus is the tools other way for grip on code c and assembly i best

but i personaly like pic basic plus :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Sobakava]

I think BASIC is not a good language, especially for the microcontrollers...
I recommend you to use C compiler, this is industry standard...

 

[PlatinumT]

If you are just starting out I would try asm first. At least a little so you can learn how all the registers work. Then I would recomend CCS C. If you really want to use basic go PIC Basic Pro.

 

[geppoilfolle]

PBPro is not at the level of PBPlus, for that concerne to reliability and "repetibility" of generated code.
Plus, PBPro have not a real useful management of arrays in memory, as i just writed in another post.

Bye

 

[dsperate]

I've tried a few. Pic Basic Pro is the best.
Also, they have a good technical support.

Marius

 

[msmax]

I found a reference to a basic compiler/simulator in another post here at elektroda.

I tried with some small simple code to see if it produces too much asm code, or does it do things diffrently from what I would code in asm.

I can say that it produces almost the same as I would code myself in asm.
I'm really thinking to use this as a start for my next project.

Give it a try...
hxxp://www.oshonsoft.com/pic.html

and not that expensive as PicBasic Pro...
Just what a beginner needs.

 

[hsi]

PIC BASIC Pro

 

[medap]

Picbasic Plus . Proteus, Mplab and Picsimide for simulation and abit assembler in.I think that ideal simulator not found.

 

[dsperate]

I tried almost al of them. Pic Basic Pro is the best and cheaper, the technical support is good.
A C compiler is another option but PBP can solve 95% of your problems. The rest of 5% is if you are not a beginner anymore.

 

[thoroide]

Crownhill proton development suite.

Full windows IDE with debugger and simulator.

Produce small code than picbasicpro more speed, Interrupt work fine and frequently updated.

Also a new basic for picmicro is born. mikrobasic that have a full windows ide too and simulator.

Seems very fine and low cost.

I will try as soon.

Bye

 

[muddasserniaz]

PicBasic Plus + Proteus