Homebrew PCBs

> > Herbert wrote:
> > why not simply use Eagle instead?

> Philip wrote:
> 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.

Here here.  I think that Easytrax/Autotrax
has the kind of usability that Word Perfect
5.1 for DOS did.  Once you have memorised
the obscure keystrokes they become second
nature.

> <Snip>
> 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 :)

Thanks for that tip - I just looked up
DOSBox and I shall give it a go.  ATM I am
running Easytrax in an exclusive window.
I have to close it down to reply to MSN
messages from the hor-knee teenage les-
bians that seem to keep sending me
things :S

http://www.airborn.com.au/layout/easytrax.html

Is the place where the VESA drivers are that
will get you 1600x1200.  It also has some
links to tutorials but only on xxxxtrax

However - that does not help you with
manuals for schematic :(

If I find any online - I will post them.
Apart from that I can try sort though my junk
boxes at home to see if I still have some
lying around.

> 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.

Well - keep me informed.

Though I will now be less in awe of you
doing "menu-driven" things now I have learnt
how easy win32-API programming is. (I never
should have been scared about the photo-
plotter software)