Quote Originally Posted by richard View Post
mplabx is not a viable ide for pbp3. its useful to get mpasm and the mplab ipe only for mcs use.
if you want to use it as an ide for pbp3 then use ver 2.35 or older , none of which will allow use a pk4 of course

or use xc8 "C" with latest mplabx
Yeah, just found out the latest MPLAB stops at PICKIT3. What a freaking mess.

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I was out of the game for nearly 15 years; the talk of losing MPASM confused me. I thought they were talking about PM, so I just hunched my shoulders and kept on trying.

Going to dish out $50 for MCS+ v5 and give that a try. At least they seem intent on supporting us for now.