At 10:29 AM 4/6/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[...]In any case, does anybody have an early Windows based version that >they would like to sell? Something close to the old 1.61 I had so I can >at keep running without having to learn too much and without spending $4000.
Others have given possible solutions to the Autotrax problem of this user, my comment here is about the issue of Autotrax licenses. Altium has stated that they consider that upgraded licenses travel with the older license. I.e., they have claimed that if you give away or sell your older, upgraded license, you have given away or sold your new license. While it might be difficult to enforce (i.e., I'd think Altium might have trouble suing for copyright infringement or having someone prosecuted for such if one sold an older license and kept the newer) you might very well be setting up a situation where Altium would refuse to give an upgrade discount. To my knowledge, they are under no legal obligation to give such discounts, though obviously if they generally charged the same for a new license as for an upgrade to it, they'd face a user revolt and/or loss of sales. Note that this user wants to avoid spending $4000, not $8000. I can certainly understand. But the $4000 figure is what an upgrade costs for an older Protel user (everything before Protel 98, if I am correct). That means that the older license, if it has not been used for upgrade, would save someone who buys it up to $4000, depending on current specials being offered. Such an older license is worth *at least* $1000, that's what I'd offer for it, and I'd expect to make money reselling.... Helping an older license user recover a damaged file, though, should not be a problem. BTW, what I think of when trying to run these older DOS licenses is video drivers. Sometimes the old video drivers were card-specific, and they could very well be a problem. I know that with Tango DOS it is generally necessary to used a patched driver instead of what what was supplied originally, to get it to run under W9X and later. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
