It's a bit of a cheeky rip off

Did you try the 1.5.8 version with the 1.5 app in Visual Micro?

Hi David,

Really sorry I thought you would have had time to read my many thanks for the video post.

It's nice to hear what users are doing but I don't really want to be seen to be advertising the zero rip off. I have some concerns about arduino.org that affect me. For example for their own reasons they decided to take the Arduino Ide 1.6 and set the version number to 1.7 but still using the Arduino hidden config files. The version number is used by many to control build cache and also to support people and explain the differences between versions. So the decision to drop a 1.7 into the support arena affects heavily free forums like this one and makes support confusing.

The next concern is that I am a part of the Zero beta team and I have seen how much work Atmel and others have put into the Zero software. It's not quite finished and when it is finished it will be supportable in much the same way the Uno etc is supported which means rock solid with a forum of developers at arduino.cc to assist. 

New users are easily let by what they read. Your confidence in the Zero would lead them to believe it is supportable and the product of choice but right now it isn't and I can't support it so think it is wrong to suggest it is a viable option right now.

So I am pleased you achieved your objectives and hope you understand that now that is achieved it is best not shown to the mainly new users who visit this forum

I also noticed you posted it on the "arduino" facebook page which covers a much wider audience.

Thanks again for the pro vid

Hi David,

Thanks again. It really is appreciated when people make the effort you have. I am sure the real Zero will be available soon and at that time I think you will find that Atmel make it a bit easier to jump out of Arduino and into .cpp and Visual Micro will make it easy to launch the debugger.

I think the exchange is all good stuff.

Tim