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Originally Posted by Steve_Alaniz
You should have gotten a Disc in the FIRST kit of parts and I'd advise finding that instead of downloading from the Microchip site. ALSO, in previous years, we were warned to only use MPLAB ver 7.20 and C18 Compiler ver 2.40. Not sure if that still applies.
Anyone else know?
Anyway, I'd really recommend using the kit of parts disc since it will have the correct version and you shouldn't have the CRC problem using that.
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Yes we're still restricted to using MPLAB 7.20 and C18 2.4, unless you're using Kevin Watson's Beta C18 3.0+ code, which I'm not sure I'd recommend to a first time FRC programmer, as it might still have bugs and the C18 3.10 compiler is high conservative about interrupt handlers and could easily bog down your code if you're not careful. So yes, I would strongly recommend just installing the version of MPLAB off the CD in the kit. You'll need those specific versions anyways if you want to work with Vex, as Kevin W. hasn't updated the Vex starter code to be 3.10 compatible yet.