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<DIV>Hey Micheal,</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for joining DPRG!</DIV>
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<DIV>Cool, you are playing with ATMega8</DIV>
<DIV>I have enjoyed playing with AVRs everything from Tiny12 on up to Mega2561
over the past 4 years.</DIV>
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<DIV>Are you using a C compiler? if not:</DIV>
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<DIV>I have been using WinAVR and Atmel AVR Studio for some time.</DIV>
<DIV>WinAVR is a free suite of tools, built around GCC C Compiler with lots of
add on goodies.</DIV>
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<DIV>AVR Studio serves as an IDE and takes care of make file generation.</DIV>
<DIV>Best I can tell AVR Studio's automatic make file generation is easier than
using WinAVR's</DIV>
<DIV>tools.</DIV>
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<DIV>Another interesting tool is AtmanAvr C. which is an IDE that works with
GCC. It provides setup menus for different AVR devices making it easy to
configure timers/interrupts... I used tool quite a bit in the past.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ron Grant</DIV>
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