Commands that will or will not work on PortA and Port C pins

[westaust55]

As an extension adjunct to the thread “hserout on portc 6”,
in reading the mentioned thread and looking further at the PICAXE manual am I correct in my understanding that for the PortA and PortC pins, that in addition to the HSEROUT & HSERIN commands (which is fixed to the portC pins C6 and C7), other commands such as
SHIFTIN, SHIFTOUT, PULSIN, PULSOUT, etc will also not operate on Port A or Port C.


Commands (other than i2c and spi functions, PWM1/2 with dedicated port C pin allocations on the 40X1) that will work with PortA and PortC are:
DIRSC, HIGH PORTC, LOW PORTC, PINSC

Seems I will be up for some re-allocation of the I/O on my partly completed "PICAXE Experimenting Box"

 

[hippy]

Yes, that's right. There is only limited control over Port C, most commands only operate with respect to the 'default input pins' and 'default output pins'.

 

[westaust55]

Port C commands

Thanks Hippy.

I guess I should be happy that I picked this up while still planning and building and not once all the hardware was assembled. Mind you hardware not that hard to alter.