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There are serveral methods to enter a program in PicPuter. Just about any os and hardware can be used. Only a serial port and a terminal program are required.
One way is to type the statements directly into picputer using a serial port and terminal program. PicPuter contains a simple easy to use line editor. Simply preceed a basic statement with a line number and it will be stored in nonvolitile flash ram. Any line number entered without a statement will delete that line. Any statement entered without a line number gets executed but not stored.
Another method is to use and text editor to create a PicPuter basic file. You can then use a terminal program with a 'send text file' option to send the entire file. You can also ^C cut ^V paste your program to PicPuter. Using this method allows for code to be commented. The semicolin ; is treated as an end of line marker, so comments are not stored inside of the microcontroller. This methods require that the serial port RTS/CTS signals are properly wired.
A possible future methods would be to use a pc to preprocess a file into picputer basic. This would allow for lables instead of line numbers, extended string lengths, and I could get partial compatablity with PBasic code if a custom IRQ vector is also used. But its really not on my list of things to do.
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