Post by thread:[PICLIST] [PIC] Good PIC software

Talking of good free software, I just installed the Beta MPLAB v6.0 IDE plus a demo copy of the C18 compiler to support some development with a PIC18F452 project. The new IDE is brilliant, and miles better than the v5.xx IDE's. I'm using v6.0 under Windows XP, with a USB link to the MPLAB ICD2 debugger, and then the regular ICSP/ICD connection to my target hardware. It all works perfectly! (Well, nearly perfectly. The new IDE has at least one bug regarding recognition of the ICD2, for which I have found a work around of deselecting and reselecting the ICD2 in the 'Select Programmer' option.) BTW, does anyone know why the downloadable C18 compiler is a demo? Does it konk-out after month or something similar? Regards, Peter Moreton {Original Message removed}