ME Labs getting Lazy?

[OS5N]

Last time I touched Basic programming language was in the late 70's. There is not enough neurons left today ( I am 74 YY ) to retain a four pair of dozens assembler instructions! Some one told me try " mel pic basic ". I went through the intruction of the Mel Pic Basic and thought I would give it a try to develop some simple Amateur Radio applications as the instruction are still understood and remaining in my old brain...but YOU PEOPLE FRIGHTENED ME a bit reading this thread.... So, shall I go on, buy the STANDARD version and proceed. Need rs232 protocol to communicate with other Ham programmes on PC who run under VISTA...! A lcd screen prefered to show part of configuration of the interface, and showing for some functions what it is doing in real time. Thanks for a shout, and as I request often, dont tell Shakespeare about my bad English, Willy would'nt appresciate.

[mackrackit]

I have been hanging around here for a long time, you get used to being FRIGHTENED!

You mentioned in another post something about USB. I do not think the standard version will handle the 18Fs and that is what you will need for USB.

Go with the pro, you will be happier in the end.
http://www.microengineeringlabs.com/products/pbp.htm

Ham. What is you call. I am still a tech. KE7ITC.

I have been wanting to play with APRS.

[rwskinner]

Don't be scared, it's a great tool and is perfect especially for starting out. Easy to use and easy to understand. Some of the stuff we were talking about really isn't an issue. I was more/less banging my head and whining when I shouldn't had been.

Go for, grab the compiler and get your feet wet, you'll love it.

Richard

[Archangel]

Last time I touched Basic programming language was in the late 70's. There is not enough neurons left today ( I am 74 YY ) to retain a four pair of dozens assembler instructions! Some one told me try " mel pic basic ". I went through the intruction of the Mel Pic Basic and thought I would give it a try to develop some simple Amateur Radio applications as the instruction are still understood and remaining in my old brain...but YOU PEOPLE FRIGHTENED ME a bit reading this thread.... So, shall I go on, buy the STANDARD version and proceed. Need rs232 protocol to communicate with other Ham programmes on PC who run under VISTA...! A lcd screen prefered to show part of configuration of the interface, and showing for some functions what it is doing in real time. Thanks for a shout, and as I request often, dont tell Shakespeare about my bad English, Willy would'nt appresciate.

Hi OS5N, absolutely nothing to be timid about, just some internal whining amongst family, PBP is a very robust programming language, this thread was about people wanting ever more canned features, so as not to have to write them themselves, if you can already program in gw basic or qbasic you are 2/3 of the way there already, most everything is the same or similar. I believe PBP is somewhat easier than PB std. to use.
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