... it could be worse. Millenium Edition, for example... ;-)


I see no lack of electrical abilities so far. I would need to ask you to wire up a light bulb to see that... ;-)




That sounds like the proper way of how things have to come to work. It would be suspicious if you would understand it all at once.

Datasheets and manuals are often a tricky (and rather boring :-) ) reading. It's only after a long time when some of the weird formulations start to make sense. And, of course, there are errors there, too; although the "bible" is around for quite a long time and should be rather error-free by now.

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I, contrary to Erik, would recommend you to continue in asm until the first application runs satisfactorily (but there is a personal bias, I am really much more into asm than anything else, and also am The C-Hater). The IDE might be kludgy - I don't know it - but in fact, you can throw the IDE away at least partially. As far as I can tell from the picture you posted, the goo'ol' Metalink assembler is behind it, and it's a known good stuff.

On the other hand, there is a scary thing seen on your picture, too - it's rather unusual and potentially dangerous to use the accumulator as a variable to pass between interrupts and "main"!

JW

PS. If you are not afraid of unfair and fierce criticism, you might want to post your code here for some public scrutiny...