Moving from Basic Stamp and MIKROE basic to PicBasic PRO

[CuriousOne]

There are a lot of books available for picbasic, but very few for picbasic pro.

Is there anywhere information of side to side comparison of these two BASICs? I found that pro has hardware pwm, interrupts and some other features, but I'd like to see the complete list.

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
There are several flavours of "PIC BASIC" from different vendors and manufacturers. This forum, as you know, is really only targeting the compilers from MicroEngineering Labs. So when you see a reference to "PIC Basic" on the net or in a book, make sure you understand which manufacturers compiler they are really talking about.

If you're talking about comparing the features of the original PIC BASIC Compiler from MELABS to the PRO version of the same compiler I don't see the purpose since the old version is discontinued. Besides, if you think PBP is complicated you wouldn't want to use PBC.

If you want to compare the three different version of PBP3 then you can do so here. As far as I know all commands are available in all versions, however the experimenter and silver edition is limited in the number of supported devices. The silver edition, for example, does not support 18F series and therefor you can't use LONG variables.

[CuriousOne]

Yes, I meant melabs products.

There are a lot of books for projects and general design for picbasic on amazon, but almost none for picbasic pro.

[Acetronics2]

, but I'd like to see the complete list.

just download the PBP3 Manual ... if you dare reading it, of course !
http://pbp3.com/downloads/PBP_Reference_Manual.pdf

Alain

[CuriousOne]

I'm asking document like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...BgQKNzcUaRCACg

side by side comparison.

[Acetronics2]

YESS ...

This document is a commercial add published by Mikroelektronika years ago ... ( I have already shown this sheet here ...) . note here ee = i
It has made laugh loudly this forum guys as it's:

1) False ... ( just verify by yourself if you do not believe it ! )
2) Totally out of date
3) It does not take into account PBP is delivered with FREE Microcode Studio as an IDE, or MPLAB ( also FREE ) ...

n-1) They do not tell you MkB produced code is much larger than PBPro produced
N) They do not tell you there's one release every ~ 3 Month ( YESS Free ! ) supposed to correct previous bugs and introducing new ones ...
N+1) They do not tell you you have to reconfig your IDE @ each new release ....

do you still want to go on being ridiculous, having every thing ready cooked ... ???

Let's go ... here we have lots of humour !!! ( British forum ... )

[CuriousOne]

I don't care what is inside that document.

I just provided it as example of side by side comparison.

So hard to understand?