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Help me w/ LCD serial backpack project w/PicBasic Pro&16

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Flamer1

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i'm making a serial lcd backpack that can accept 1-wire serial input for any 16x2 hitachi chip lcd. i'm doing it using a 16f84 and using PicBasic Pro for the code. i wrote a quick code and it seems like it would work, but it seems too simple and right now i could have some extra opinions, especially because i don't have any lcd's to test it out with yet. here is my code:

Code:
'*==============================================================*
'*  Notes   : Serial backpack for 16F84                         *
'*          : 8-bit data bus on PORTB                           *
'*          : PORTA.0 is Enable bit                             *
'*          : PORTA.1 is Register Select bit                    *
'*                                                              *
'*          : for a 16x2 Line LCD                               *
'****************************************************************

DEFINE OSC 4

'Set LCD data port
DEFINE LCD_DREG PORTB
'Set starting data bit (0 or 4) if 4-bit bus
DEFINE LCD_DBIT 0
'Set LCD register select port
DEFINE LCD_RSREG PORTA 
'Set LCD register select bit
DEFINE LCD_RSBIT 1
'Set LCD enable port
DEFINE LCD_EREG PORTA
'Set LCD enable bit
DEFINE LCD_EBIT 0
'Set LCD bus size (4 or 8) bits
DEFINE LCD_BITS 8
'Set number of lines on LCD
DEFINE LCD_LINES 2
'Set command delay time in us
DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS 2000
'Set data delay time in us
DEFINE LCD_DATAUS 50

DATAIN      Var PORTA.2
DATAOUT     Var PORTA.3
B0          Var Byte
POSITION    Var Byte

TRISA.0 = 1
TRISA.1 = 0

Lcdout $FE, 1
Pause 500           'Pause for initialization of LCD

START:
LINE1:
    Lcdout $FE, 1
    For POSITION = 0 to 15
RX:
    Serin2 DATAIN, 16780, 1, RX, [B0]   'read in ASCII data, timeout 1ms
    If B0 = 10 Then LINE2       'If line feed, goto next lcd line
TX:
    Lcdout $FE, $80+POSITION, B0       'output ASCII data to LCD
    Next POSITION

LINE2:    
    For POSITION = 0 to 15
RX2:
    Serin2 DATAIN, 16780, 1, RX2, [B0]
    If B0 = 10 Then LINE1       'If line feed, goto next lcd line
TX2:
    Lcdout $FE, $C0+POSITION, B0
    Next POSITION
    Goto START
End
 
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