PBP3 download trial and purchase links

[Ioannis]

Maybe if you contact directly Charles Leo, owner of Melabs?

Ioannis

[HenrikOlsson]

Strange - and sad. Very sad.
I would have given up already and went to a competing product.

Crownhill (the company that hosts this forum) did have their own compiler. It's now end of life but available free of charge (though it looks like you need to register to actually download it):
https://www.crownhill.co.uk/category-41.html

The Positron compilers (seems to be a spin-off or continuation of the Proton compiler) is another attractive alternative:
https://sites.google.com/view/rosetta-tech/home

If you're targeting 2only" the PIC18 series then Swordfish might be interesting:
https://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/swordfish/

Then we have the offerings from MikroE:
https://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic-pic

Personally I've been somewhat interested in Positron but have not tried it yet.
I'm sure there are others that I've missed.

[Ioannis]

The MikroE seems also to slowed down development.

There is also this, the Great Cow Basic, open source:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gcbasic/

Ioannis

[richard]

None of them are in any way a close fit to what you have learned from pbp so it will be a big learning cure only to sink into another programming cul de sac.
its C all the way down for me

[Richards]

@HenrikOlsson & @Ioannis
Thanks for the software alternatives.
I was not aware of most of them.

@richard
"None of them are in any way a close fit to what you have learned from pbp..."
PBP is better?

Maybe if you contact directly Charles Leo, owner of Melabs?
Ioannis

How can I do that?

[richard]

PBP is better?

You would need to define what better means to you
pbp has no Strings, no floats, no ability to select between signed and unsigned procedure's
pbb cannot do 32 bit math on anything but pic18 chips and then only if you compile for longs
pbp has a very limited range of variable types and no inherent ability to use user defined memory structures
pbb cannot use pointers [address of objects in memory] natively
pbp is very efficient, can have user defined functions, works well with limited memory chips
pbp allows assembly code to woven in seamlessly
pbp has a good forum with heaps of example code
pbp has lots of ways to side step its limitations due to its very open architecture

[Ioannis]

Email him here:

Charles Leo

[email protected]

Ioannis