PCB design.

You spotted your own program on ebay...yeeaaaaa...riiiiiight.."spotted"...

Honestly, how dumb do you think people are?

Do you think promoting your product by spamming usenet pretending to be a user is going to fool anyone or instill confidence in potential customers?

How very clever of you!

If you dont know a bargain when you see it that is your look out. The product stands up on its own without me pushing it.

Nigel.

nospam wrote:

was: PCB design.

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:SiglznvMQlIJ:

Still top-posting like an idiot as well. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:SXIajvWUVHAJ:groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py=answer=12348+Tempting-though-it-is-*-*-*-*-*-*+remove-*-*-*-irrelevant+STOP+zz-zz+qq+BOTTOM

You don't seem to have a web site dvoted to your product.

Then why did you spam Usenet?

I call the whole thing bullshit. Open source I can semi-comprehend. I suppose some people like to work for free. Their choice.

But a commercial product of this scale being SOLD for a few bucks? That alone raises several red flags.

Next...checking the ebay add, all I see is a list of features it supposedly has. I don't see a SINGLE screenshot of the actual software!! I mean wouldn't someone post screenshots when trying to promote their software?

And on another forum you actually claim you converted your little pascal application to C#? That's friggin laughable considering that I have been a C# developer for years now and can tell you there is no possible way to re-write an app of the magnitude with the capabilities you are claiming in that short of a time.

What's even more laughable is your prior claim of converting your assembly code to pascal for your first windows version...

This whole thing reeks of total complete bullshit. I doubt any software even exists...

But hey, prove me wrong. Backup your claims!! Lets see some screenshots!!! Post some AVIs of your appliation at work...

-- Stephan

kimi no koto omoidasu hi nante nai no wa kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara

I 've found schreenshots of his program

Well, he didn't bother to change the default Icon on the Title Bar. That's lazyness

If you click on his swish header, you get to something called "CKP Railways" ... very odd. Maybe he did their web page and forgot to change it.

I a mnot very happy with the snide remarks.

I have been a programmer and electronics engineer for 25 years now.

As a design consultant I was expected to pick up any area of electronics or any programming language and get stuck in.

The DOS version was 330,000 lines of assembler. The Pascal version was around 100,000. The C# version was around 100,000

Just to astound you even more I recently converted one of the modules to C++ and Visual basic.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Paul Burke wrote:

Better a few bucks than getting nothing for it.

If you don't want snide don't spam usenet with dishonest pseudo advertising.

Sometimes, no. If you sell it, you will have to maintain it. You can easily find yourself in a position where maintenance costs exceed the paltry sum you receive.

-Chuck

Then you best stay away from the usenet. The guys were very mild with you.

Ditto, only I am approaching 30 years.

Only the ones you chose to accept. I never was willing to program in microsoft proprietary languages, like VB and C#

Uh huh. Only an idiot would write that many lines of assembler to run on DOS. I say that from experience (both of being an idiot, and a programmer). I started programming DOS when the base IBM-PC machine was 16K with a single floppy disk. There was no way that that machine could run a 330K line assembly language program. It couldn't even fit one on its floppy disk drive. By the time the IBM-PC came with 640K on board, and two DSDD floppy disk drives, there were at least 3 decent C compilers available (Computer Innovations was the best). They didn't make perfect code, but they easily would handle the structure, and let you use assembly wherever speed was really important.

Turbo Pascal was the dominant pascal back in the DOS days, and I am sure that it would croak with a 100K line program. Something about it's com file format, with its combined 64K I&D space.

Whoopie! I converted a lawn mower into a minibike once!

Yes, the minibike did smoke a little.

-Chuck

I'm astounded. I'm even more astounded by your 7 copper layers. Do tell, how many 7 layer PCBs have you ever seen? Did you allocate 3 bits for the layer count and started counting at 1????

The good thing is that you can at least generate resist for those 7 layers. I don't know what you'll do with resist for the 5 inner layers though.

Yes. That's obvious.

What do you want? A cookie?

-- Stephan

kimi no koto omoidasu hi nante nai no wa kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara

VB sucks but...C# is actually a really nice language, been using it for many ears now with no regrets.

Disregarding wether it is possible or not, only a newbie would actually give a crap about lines of code. I mean, lines of code is about as relevant as our current planetary alignment.

Now why did ya do a thing like that? Coulda just bought a harley, they come already converted for you from the factory! =)

-- Stephan

kimi no koto omoidasu hi nante nai no wa kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara

Real Geeks start going the other way -- the fewer lines of code to accomplish a given task, the better.

I wrote a PCB layout program that's just as powerful as PADS in 27 lines of Joel##++!

(In Joel##++, one of the intrinsic commands is, of course AutoRoutePCB()...)

:-)