Hi Martin,
Keep your hair on.


Use Pinnacle for a simulator, its pretty good. Which 8052 flash cpus so you want to program, most manufacturers offer free programming tools at the cost of building your own hardware. Peter Dannegger has built a very neat little programmer for the Atmel series.

The scope project progresses well. The mirror should be in the furnace now, and the grinding machine is doing quite well. Look at the website and see the latest news at
here

Some new astro 8052 projects to consider, an aurora monitor, and a cosmic ray detector (Look in scientific American

Steve