the free offer only lasts until September 30th when the company wants you to like the product enough to send them $195 for twelve konths of support and upgrades. I believe the product is not crippled. but the fact that it is missing help areas indicates it may not actually be complete.
>--- Original Message --- >From: "da Silva, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 9/23/02 7:08:22 PM > >Not sure, but "... You get the lot!" sounds to me like the free version >is not meant to be a "crippled" version of the software. So if there are >problems with it, perhaps Kovac may be prepared to fix them (unless >they're too difficult I suppose, since it may be difficult to justify large >R&D expenditure on a free product). > >Anyway, you might as well provide this feedback to Kovac and see >what happens ... > >Joe. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Thatcher [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:46 AM >> To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L >> Subject: RE: Fwd: Download completely FREE AutoTRAX EDA PCB design >> suite >> >> >> it might be free, but it was easy to find a bug, so you would >> need to buy the upgrade version for $195 if you wanted it to >> work correctly. Makes me wonder if there isn't already a version >> 1.08 that fixes "issues" with the free version. >> >> The first thing I tried to do was to add a PIC micro. The "wizard" >> is fine, but a family and a family group is required to create >> a new part. The online manual shows the MICRO family under the >> DIGITAL family group. The actual database has a seperate family >> group called MICROS and the only "family" categories underneath >> it is the ZILOG and the Rabbit. You could work around it by sticking >> any new micros in the either family, but that kind of bothers >> the engineer in me. >> >> The caveat "you get what you pay for" comes to mind. The database >> is Access so maybe someone could fix that database to add new >> families... >> >> A few other things... you can't search in help. There are no >> help topics in the search tab. They have a glossary tab, but >> no entries. My concern it that you would go to the trouble of >> designing something and then run into an issues that you can;t >> get around without buying the product to complete what you started. >> >> best regards, Steve Thatcher >> >> >--- Original Message --- >> >From: Jaap van Ganswijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Date: 9/22/02 8:43:17 PM >> > >> >> >FYI, >> > >> >>Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:01:47 +0100 >> >>From: "Ilija Kovacevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Subject: Download completely FREE AutoTRAX EDA PCB design suite >> (1.07) >> >> >> >>Download completely FREE AutoTRAX EDA PCB design suite (1.07) >> >> >> >>Download the latest completely FREE version of >> >>AutoTRAX EDA (1.07) from www.autotraxEDA.com. >> >>There are NO catches, no limits, no time limits, >> >>no usage limits. There is no 'gold', 'pro' or 'deluxe' >> >>version. You get the lot! >> >> > ------ snip ------ > >-- >Author: da Silva, Joe > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com >San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Author: Steve Thatcher INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
