[sdiy] Free pcb software - Where's the catch?

[patchell]

    Well, this is what comes from companies recycling other companies product
names...I suppose :-)

    It was only a week ago or so that I noted that Protel Autotrax version 1.61 is
availiable as freeware on their website now (This truely is a DOS program)....and
it is a nice program, for a dos program...

    I went to autotraxeda.com and noticed that I can't seem to get into their
download page...it is probably busy with every body downloading the program...yeah,
it seems too good to be true...I suppose.

Ken Stone wrote:

> Wrong software!
> autotraxeda is not protel's autotrax.
> Ken
>
> >    The catch is this is a DOS program...however, it has been reported that it
> >will run even under Windows NT.  It is actually a very power PCB package, and
> >I used it for many years until Protel finally got their windows version
> >working.
> >
> >spr at spridley.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.autotraxeda.com/
> >>
> >> This looks too good to be true.  Has anyone tried it?
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
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