Great Cow BASIC Version 0.98.05 is released.

The Great Cow BASIC development team have published another release that further enhances the Great Cow BASIC toolset capabilities.

This release is called V0.98.05. This release introduces many new capabilities as follows, read the release note as there are 100 changes in this release.

For the full list of the 100 changes see the release_list.txt file in the GreatCowBASIC folder.

Great Cow BASIC IDE v0.98.05 click here to download GCB_Installer v0.98.05

• You want the complete package; you want a complete installation of the IDE and GCGB.

• This is the latest build with the Great Cow Basic compiler, the IDE and Great Cow Basic.
  This is a complete package. Contains demonstrations and seven microprocessor programmers
  (including the command line tools and GUI tools for the Microchip Pickit 2 & 3) for Microchip and AVR microprocessors.

This release will include the complete build shown above, a minimal build, a core build, a GCGB build, MacOS, BSD Linux and a standard Linux build.

Compiler

• Further performance enhancements - the compiler is faster.
• Fixed maths, variables naming, calculation can set bits, revision of the default config to improve useability, critical fixes for K42 and K8 MCUs, wait 1 m now waits 1 m, improve DIMension of variables, fix for incorrect usage of temp variables, banksel optimisation and optimisation of ENDIFs .
• Quality improvements in the generated ASM – by the removal of unnecessary commentary.

Millis

• Millis library introduced

PPSTool

• New XML files added

Device Files

• New devices added
• Refreshed all devices to support new capabilities: Stacks, UserIDs

IDE

• Instruction set improvements to the IDE lexer

ADC

• Library updated to support  all potential ADC ports

Help

• Updated for new capabilities and improvements

GLCD

• Updated libraries – OLED fonts, Touch added, addition of HWI2C, improved SPI support and lots more.

SPI

• Improved support for mode by use of user constant.
• Major revision of the K42 MCUs

DS18X20

• Quality improvements in the generated ASM – by the removal of unnecessary commentary.

 

The previous set of hints and tips are still very good.

See https://sourceforge.net/p/gcbasic/discussion/579125/thread/7fae77a3/

Enjoy