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Subject: Re: RE : [Homebrew_PCBs] Manuals for Protel Autotrax / DOS Schematic

From: Mycroft2152 <mycroft2152@...>
Date: 2006-06-06

Take a look at DipTrace.

Myc

--- Philip Pemberton <philpem@...> wrote:

> In message
>
<20060605224654.70787.qmail@...>
> "Herbert E. Plett" <cachureos@...>
> wrote:
>
> > why not simply use Eagle instead?
>
> Because my EAGLE licence is a non-profit licence.
> I'm designing something
> that may potentially be sold, and Autotrax is the
> only free PCB CAD app I can
> actually bear to use.
>
> And as for the manuals, yes it's the freeware
> version from Protel. The
> Schematic master disc came from someone who found it
> in his drawer and gave
> it to me (something about "it doesn't work properly
> on Win98, and I'm using
> EASY-PC now") - the manuals were already long gone.
>
> What I have got is a working DOSBox config file that
> lets me use Atrax in
> Win2K, and get 16MB of (emulated) EMS memory for it.
> Who needs hardware VESA
> and EMS support when you've got DOSBox :)
>
> I'm thinking about throwing together a little
> "project manager" for
> Autotrax/Schematic. A menu-driven thing that keeps
> track of projects and
> handles netlist generation/processing,
> Gerber-to-XGerber conversion, etc.
>
> "Why did you climb the mountain?"
> "Because it was there."
>
> --
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