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 AVR^tm 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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When installed PBP3 will operate in trial mode for 15 days, we recommend that you TRY PBP3 BEFORE you buy PBP3. Be sure that you are happy with the product and the facilities it offers

After purchasing your PBP3 license, the product may be activated by entering the activation key as prompted by the application, this process should be carried out whilst your host machine has access to the internet. Activation requires that the machine can contact the melabs activation service.
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Demonstration of PC to PIC® bi-directional Dialogue... PC User (using something like Hyperterminal) is able to control ...