JalV2 for the Mark-III page.

This is a summary page for getting started with using Jal V2 for programming the Mark-III controller.

The official JalV2 is available from : http://www.casadeyork.com/jalv2/?M=A
Some nice BSD licensed libraries are at : http://pic.flappie.nl/
A set of links and info is at : http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=170243

I'm running Jalv2 on Ubuntu linux and built the compiler from source. The code is BSD licensed and the modified version for the Mark-III that what I used can be down loaded from jal_version_two.tar.bz2. After compiling the compiler using a simple make command, the installation was a matter of hand copying the jalv2 binary to the bin directory of your choice.

JalV2 differs from the Jal_0.4.62 on source forge in that the libraries are not installed or are part of the compiler package. You need to put the library files where you like and get them separately. Fortunately the above links have some nice libraries. I have created a custom Mark-III libraries from the work already done. This library is included in my sample programs. See markiii_jalv2.tar.bz2 for my library configuration and partialy tested sample programs (with make files). Also included in this tarball is an early version of a python based bot loader program. It mostly works, but hasn't been tested a lot yet.

JalV2 creates smaller hex files WRT the equivalent Jal-0.4.62 compiler, but more importantly, JalV2 support 16 and 32 bit integers and arithmetic. Also the libraries I found use the HW serial port and HW I2C, where the 0.4.62 compiler used bit-banked i2c, and serial implementations.