At 2:32 pm +0100 6/8/98, Andrew Gale wrote:

>The assembler is dead easy too - you type the pic program in
>as a BASIC program, and each PIC instruction is a BASIC procedure
>- it's a little slow, but it's fine for the short programs most
>PICs are used for.
...
>Still, it's a lovely tool, and once you get used to it, it's quite a
>bit more flexible than a standard assembler - for example, you can
>create an 80 cycle delay with: FOR i=1 TO 20 : nop : NEXT i
>and an 18-entry sine wave look-up table with:
>FOR i=0 TO 17 : retlw SIN(i*20*6.28/360) : NEXT i
>
>Simple!

Hmmm, sounds suspiciously similar to BIAS[1], a program which Ian wrote for
the Spectrum way back when.

I believe he once mentioned possibly starting to think about perhaps maybe
writing a Sam version one day in the remote future....

Andrew

[1] Basic Integrated Assembler System. Or something.


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