Downloading the correct IDE?

Using Arduino Installation & Troubleshooting
#1

Anyone help with this query?

I have (had) the IDE Arduino 0015 - I think, running nicely on my pc, all swimmingly and luverly, until... My hard drive decided to eat itself and I lost everything. O/S is Vista pro, Arduino is duemillenove in good cond.

PC now rebuilt, it had two HDDs so I binned the dead one and re-installed Vista pro.

Can anyone tell me, do I need to reload Arduino 0015 after rebuilding and installing Vista (can't afford new pc yet)

OR, do I download the [u]latest[/u] release of Arduino and assume (like Windows hahahahahaha) that it is backwards compatible?

Thanks in adv. McP

#2

The latest should, for the most part, be backward compatible. I update every six months or so and my early sketches still work with #22.

#3

Most sketches will work but we can always help out if something doesn't quite work the same.

I know that some things are not perfectly backward compatible (a sketch from 0021 didn't work on 0022 this weekend)

#4

If you aren't using old external libraries in your sketches, there shouldn't be any issues using 0022. (Most of those should work too unless you're unlucky). I can't live without some of the refinements in the later IDE's (Tone and 4 bit LCDs without faffing with libraries to mention a couple).

#5

The included EEPROM library has changed so the EEPROMwriteanything function doesn't compile anymore.

#6

I stand corrected. Although the mentioned EEprom library issue is a tad obscure :wink:

#7

I stand corrected. Although the mentioned EEprom library issue is a tad obscure

True, there are probably some more though - just haven't found them yet :D

#8

Thanks all for the replies.

I'll attempt to reconnect one day this week. I downloaded the latest version - seems ok. Proof will come when I try running some of my 'old' sketches, I had a nice one for the blinkm max. Fingers crossed.

Thanks again.

#9