I'm currently using Celestial Horizon's CH Basic. Its very basic in so much that I find writing almost as much assembly code as the basic. I'm thinking of PICBasic??

I would also like to know if MPLAB's ICD 2 is a worth while investment. I've just finished a little project where a stepper motor is used to control telescope focus. Debugging consists of the simulator and guess work. I found the simulator, MPLAB, could not simulate a EEPROM write!

I also found the Tiny ICD but my belief is that the quality is a little down. Has any body used either of these two??

Thanks

John