PhilTIlson
New Member
Hi - I'm hoping someone will be able to offer a solution to my problem, as I have seen that both Oshonsoft and MPLAB are discussed on this forum!
I have read the sticky(!), but didn't see any reference that seemed appropriate to my dilemma.
My problem is that I have come back to microcontrollers after several years and my poor old brain is finding it much harder than before! I have a parallel PIC programmer called a PIC Tutor and on the back of the circuit board it says "PIC TUTOR V2 1".
I have recently purchased PIC Basic with the PIC Simulator from Oshonsoft as it seemed to offer a number of advantages. The problem is that, though I can write and compile a simple PIC Basic program, when I try to download it using MPLAB, it goes through the motions, but nothing will run. If I use one of the MPLAB sample programs and download that, everything is fine, so the programmer works ok.
My PIC Basic program runs perfectly in the Simulator - I just cannot get it to download via the MPLAB software to the PIC Tutor. I'm thinking that this may be something to do with the configuration bits, but as I'm using a 16F84A at the moment, there aren't actually many options, and I think I've tried them all!
Can anyone please offer any ideas as to how I can get this going?
I have read the sticky(!), but didn't see any reference that seemed appropriate to my dilemma.
My problem is that I have come back to microcontrollers after several years and my poor old brain is finding it much harder than before! I have a parallel PIC programmer called a PIC Tutor and on the back of the circuit board it says "PIC TUTOR V2 1".
I have recently purchased PIC Basic with the PIC Simulator from Oshonsoft as it seemed to offer a number of advantages. The problem is that, though I can write and compile a simple PIC Basic program, when I try to download it using MPLAB, it goes through the motions, but nothing will run. If I use one of the MPLAB sample programs and download that, everything is fine, so the programmer works ok.
My PIC Basic program runs perfectly in the Simulator - I just cannot get it to download via the MPLAB software to the PIC Tutor. I'm thinking that this may be something to do with the configuration bits, but as I'm using a 16F84A at the moment, there aren't actually many options, and I think I've tried them all!
Can anyone please offer any ideas as to how I can get this going?