Great Cow BASIC Version 0.98.07 is released.

The Great Cow BASIC development team have released another version of the software to enhance the Great Cow BASIC toolchain capabilities.

 

This release is called V0.98.07.   This release includes major changes in the support of PIC/AVR and LGT microcontrollers.

Great Cow BASIC IDE v0.98.07 click here to download GCB_Installer v0.98.07

• 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 includes the complete build shown above, a minimal build, a core build, a GCGB build, MacOS, BSD Linux and a standard Linux build.

 

For the full list details of the changes see https://onedrive.live.com/edit.aspx?resid=2F87FFE77F3DBEC7!67634&authkey=!ADmkT3exl5l4Pkc

 

Compiler

• PIC, AVR and LGT microcontrollers supported with automated RAM clear down for AVR/LGT
• PIC-AS compiler support for PICs
• 31kHz automatic oscillator support
• Improved support for block comments and line continuation
• Native support for MPLAB-IDE config files
• New support for setting variable bits with a variable as pointer to a specific bit
• 32bit and 64bit Wintel support
• Improved FOR-NEXT loop handler
• New support for Table including CSV, multi-line and quotes
• Improved ASM documentation including source location of sub routines, functions and macros
• Improved reporting in HTML report file
• Improved configuration file usage including updated PREFERENCES EDITOR
• 100s of fixes

Device Files

• Logic Green Technology (LGT) lgt8fx328p device added 
• PICs added - 18F*Q10, 18F*Q43, 18F*Q41, 18F*Q40 and16F152xx, 
• AVRs added -ATtiny20, ATtiny4, ATtiny40, ATtiny5, ATtiny9
• AVRRCs added - ATtiny4, ATtiny5, ATtiny9, ATtiny10, ATtiny102 and ATtiny104
• Refreshed all PIC18F devices to support memory optimisation

LCD

• Improved LCD performance ( up to 35% faster)
• K107 support added
• 1601 support added

GLCD

• ST7735 driver added and specific driver for ADAFRUIT display
• e-Paper driver added
• UC1601 driver added
• SSD1306 Twin display driver added
• ST7789 driver added
• Improved nt7108c driver to support port.bit bus assignment.

PPSTOOL

• Included PPSTool ICON in Winodws installation

Lowlevel

• I2C - improved handlers, improved frequency calculator and support for all new chips added
• PWM  - improved handlers and support for all new chips added
• SPI - improved handler to include new support for PIC Fast Mode and support for all new chips added

Timers

• Quality improvements  for TIMER 1, 3 and 5  in handling LFINTOSC

Programmers

•  Added AVRrc Support to AVRDUDE

Tool Chain

• IDE - Improved performance when compiling
• IDE - Support for Block comments
• IDE - Improved oscillator usage reporting

PICInfo

• New utility to show parameters of PIC
• Access Microchip webpages
• Direct access to PPStool

HELP

• Help updated to include quality improvements and new capabilities shown above.

Converters

• New BMP converted to handle large BMPs  and data compression

Sensors

• Quality improvements  for DS18B20 including response resolution
• New max848xdigitalpot library

Enjoy