Still just a blank LCD, I expected to get at least some garbage on the display. anyone got any other idea's what might be wrong? I added:
LCDOUT "TEST"
PAUSE 1000
LCDOUT $FE, 1

to the code just before the demo loop part and it display's correctly and then clear screens, so i guess its not totally blank, but it doesn't do much else.
I also tried hooking the LCD to my BS2p and ran my modified version of the code using LCD out in proper pBasic format and it sorta worked but only displayed the bottom 1/4 of the numbers all shifted up to the top line. like what should be displaying on the 4th line of the LCD was showing on the top line and all the rest was off screen.