The Great Cow Great Cow BASIC
An open-source BASIC compiler for Microchip® PIC® microcontrollers
Links
Home This is a page with links relevant to PIC microcontrollers. If you need help with some aspect of Great Cow BASIC, see our support page.
Handy sites for GCBASIC users
Microchip Technology  The manufacturer of PIC microcontrollers, and an excellent place to find datasheets and other information.
The PICList If you are having a PIC-related problem, or would like some more links than are presented here, head over to the PICList.
IC-Prog A free (non-open source) program that supports many different PIC programmers.
JDM programmer One of the simplest programmer designs available. Compatible with many different chip models.
BasicIDE An IDE for GCBASIC.
GCBIDE An IDE for GCBASIC.

Other open-source PIC programming languages
JAL Jal is a high-level language for a number of Microchip PIC microcontrollers (16c84, 16f84, 12c508, 12c509, 16F877) and Ubicom SX (SX18 and SX28) microcontrollers. Has a similar syntax to Pascal.
SDCC Small Device C Compiler, an ANSI-C compiler that produces code for PIC16 and 18 chips, in addition to several other controllers.
GNUPIC Links to many more PIC programming languages not mentioned here.

Other
SourceForge Our hosts
FreeBASIC The compiler that is used for GCBASIC. If you are interesting in compiling GCBASIC, you need FreeBASIC v0.16b.
Crimson Editor A free (closed source) IDE that has support for many languages. See the Getting Started page for information on setting it up to work with Great Cow BASIC.

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