Amanda Wynne wrote: > I've got dosemu itself going. Exitemu works fine. I can dir, copy > to/from floppy (painfully slowly). > But I can't get anything worthwhile working. Protel Trax just goes into a black hole. Nothing. ...... > All help appreciated as I can't kill off > windows till I get Protel going under dosemu. I need it for work.
This is nothing to do with dosemu some suggestions if you are able to make the break from a Windows/DOS electronic CAD to a Linux one. I have just had to do a circuit board from schematic to autoroute and to gerber file format for a circuit board house to make the board and used CadSoft's EagleCAD. http://www.cadsoft.de I had DOS Protel at home (a legal cp) but I really felt I wanted to use Linux. They have a scematic capture, autorouter and layout package that is free, with some limitations, for personal use. It works superbly AND it comes with Libraries of components. I will be moving up to the $ version as I am using it for commercial stuff. I also tried Bartels AutoEngineer. http://www.bartels.de It comes as RPM's for Intel platforms. The trial/freeware version downloaded and it installed fine. That ran a bit slow and I liked the interface of EagleCAD better so I didnt use AutoEngineer but it looks like a complete package equivqlent to Protel. There other open source and free packages at sourceforge for doing circuits but comparison to Protel is like Notepad.exe is to Word. GAEL2 is an EDA package for Gnome2, again its pretty simple. There are lots of very alpha stage PCB layout packages. I actually downloaded and tried out several. Basically for all the Of course moving from Protel or any Windows package to Linux may not be that simple if you have lots of previous Protel designs or have to exchange CAD files with colleugues using Protel. As my circuit was new I was able to make a clean jump. Here is a reall good set of refs for EDA on Linux: http://sal.kachinatech.com/Z/1/index.shtml Mike --- Michael Lake Linux enthusiast, caver and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
