Great Cow BASIC
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| Great Cow Basic | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Hugh Considine |
| Initial release | 2006 |
| OS | Microsoft Windows, GNU Linux |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | [1] |
Great Cow BASIC or GCBASIC is an open-source BASIC compiler for most 8-bit Microchip PIC microcontrollers. It is written using FreeBASIC, and so can be run on Windows and Linux.
[edit] Contributors
The lead developer of GCBASIC is Hugh Considine. Several other developers have joined the project, contributing additional libraries and IDEs.
[edit] Example Program
A Hello World program, written to display the message on an LCD:
'Select the chip model #chip 16F877A, 20 'Settings for LCD #define LCD_IO 4 #define LCD_RS PORTD.0 #define LCD_RW PORTD.1 #define LCD_EN PORTD.2 #define LCD_DB4 PORTD.3 #define LCD_DB5 PORTD.4 #define LCD_DB6 PORTD.5 #define LCD_DB7 PORTD.6 'Show the message Print "Hello, World!"
