[sdiy] dsPIC fun board

[Veronica Merryfield]

On 16-Jan-09, at 1:13 PM, Eric Brombaugh wrote:

> Matthew Smith wrote:
>> Quoth Jason Proctor at 2009-01-17 06:46...
>>> are there any Mac (or Linux, at a pinch) tools for the dsPIC  
>>> series? i'm not seeing any on the microchip.com site.
>> If you can't find any, you could always virtualise.
>> I run Linux on the desktop and have WinXP installed as a guest OS  
>> under VMWare Workstation.  Hardly seems to run any slower than when  
>> I had this thing dual-booting and Windoze was running directly on  
>> the hardware!
>
> True enough. I run MPLAB on WinXP under VMWare Fusion on my Macbook.  
> Works just fine, and Fusion is pretty inexpensive. A legal copy of  
> WinXP was actually the limiting factor in this setup for me.
>
> You still need some sort of download hardware though. Since I use an  
> MCHP ICD2 I don't know what the alternatives are.

I too use VMware Fusion on my Mac book pro to run WinXp, WinVista and  
Linux and they all run well, possibly better than on my old desktop  
machine. I have not yet had any problems with some of the dev tools I  
use and their use of the USB ports.

Although I know about VirtualBox.org and have anecdotal evidence that  
it works well, I have not tried it myself.

Veronica