The syntax of Great Cow BASIC is based on that of QBASIC/FreeBASIC, but with some alterations to suit the vastly different system that it compiles for. The assembly code produced by Great Cow BASIC can be assembled and run on almost all 10, 12, 16 and 18 series chips. Please see "Supported chips" for a list of chips that GCBASIC is intended to work with.
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- Standard BASIC flow control statements - If, Select Case, Do, For, Goto
- Support for multiply, divide, add, subtract, boolean operations and comparisons.
- Bit, Byte, Word and String data types, in addition to byte arrays.
- Subroutines and Functions
- Inline assembly, in most cases without any special directives
- Data tables
- Supports most 8-bit PIC microcontrollers
- Write code for a 10F, easily adapt it for an 18F!
- Wait command, which gives the same length delay regardless of clock speed.
- Standard 2x16 LCD routines
- Routines for on-chip A/D, PWM, SPI, EEPROM and Timers
- RS232 communications - rates between 300 and 19200 bps with user configurable parity, start and stop bits.
- PS/2 keyboard reading
- 4x4 Keypad
Other features:
- Ample support - help file, example programs, forum and email
- Several translations
- Generates standard MPASM compatible assembly code.
- Free, both in the free beer way and the free speech way!