OT: Did they take the backup feature out of MS-Works?

Just use what works. Who's going to check? ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Well, I just want to keep everything legit :-)

If there's anybody who deserves to be bootlegged...

John

I just discovered another thing they may have screwed up. The ctrl-c -> ctrl-v copy method often doesn't stick. Sometimes even the "paste" in the menu is grayed out, for now apparent reason. A few minutes later it sometimes works again, sometimes not. Oh man ...

Older software = better software

Maybe I should fire up old OrCad SDT after all, that was the best CAD since sliced bread. Nothing ever came close.

What CAD did you use to slice bread? ;-)

HiWire. Best little schematic capture ever. As easy as pencil on graph paper but the output is way prettier. I've still got an ancient CGA version(!) that I'd still be using except the dongle doesn't work. Copy protection sucks.

'Course HiWire didn't integrate with layout (you could import/export netlists with smARTworks) but I've never found a sweeter capture module. Using OrCAD 15 today and HiWire capture was better.

This one?

It does seem to be integrated if you buy the layout parts. Anyhow, thanks, I'll check it out. But it better be good since $1000 is not exactly chump change.

Of packages targeting the professional market, ORCAD Capture is just about the worst these days. Many of the cheap or free "hobbyist"-level programs are better... the only major features they tend to lack that ORCAD has is database integration, and perhaps scripting (I say "perhaps" because ORCAD's scripting is very bare bones, making it of marginal utility.)

I'm still running PCAD tango from 1996, rock solid, maybe one crash in the last 3 years, it would probably be a bit limiting for "The Larkins" around here, but suits me fine.

I tried the PCAD 2006 demo, some nice features, but so operationally slow compared to tango, but it looked like a nice paper work generator :(

martin

That's the sequel. It's still a DOS program, so they haven't done any updates "lately"... I downloaded their demo and it doesn't run under XP. I'll have to dig up a DOS box and see if it works there.

I used CGA HiWire (not HiWire II) to do the schematics for my first for-pay PCB layout in 1984 -- did the layout old skool, red/blue/black tape at 4X on a lightboard. Times have changed!

Well, then I might as well dig out my old OrCad SDT-III license. That's one of the best pieces of software ever written. No crash in a decade or so. Not one.

Actually, I never really liked SDT all that much.

I hated the fact that you could not zoom in past the basic resolution, so if you got a new, hi res monitory, you couldn't read your symbol graphics any longer. Running it in anything above 640x480 was just an exercise in frustration for me. Give me a windows version any day...

Charlie

Unless you have a huge monitor, then it should be ok. I never had any issue like that. Then again I was a lot younger and didn't need glasses back in those days, so who knows.