Amicus is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board, however, the Amicus board uses a Microchip PIC® microcontroller instead of an Atmel AVRtm type.
Comprehensive documentation and a helpful and friendly support environment, make using
Amicus18 an easy and enjoyable experience for beginners and seasoned programmers.
Forum Moderator Mackrakit (Dave) very kindly ported the Proton BASIC Compiler code over to PBP3 and modified the original AMicus18 docuemts for PBP3 users.
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Re: PBP and IDE/programmer
Glad you got it working!
Ioannis Today, 08:37Yeah, that stand alone revive of Pickit application is my favorite! Love it! Fast, compact and easy to use.
I think you cannot ged rid of the MPLABX as the PBP needs...