Hi,
I have been using Orcad since the early 1980s... moved to SDT/386 c.
1993. I now run the U.S. (un-dongled) version, 1.2 I think.Later I used it successfully under win2000, though it would run only in a DOS box in 640x480 and only full-screen. This is a bit tacky and nowhere near as nice as it was under DOS6.2 using an old ATI Graphics Ultra Pro 8514-emulating video card, but quite usable.
It always worked fine, printing to a 300dpi PCL printer or to postscript files.
Now, I have built a new PC which has a 2-core CPU, WinXP SP3, 3GB RAM, etc plus a different video card.
And SDT/386 still runs as before, but randomly freezes.
Does anybody know a way around this?
Googling reveals various "solutions" ranging from disabling all the CPU cores but one, through various drivers (which I can't find), through various DOS emulators, to using an Nvidia 9500 video card which supposedly supports VESA all the way to 1024x768 etc.
Can anyone suggest a way forward?
I still have a PCI bus version of that ATI GUP video card but it is no good for running windoze, with any modern monitor on it.
I did try a windoze version of Orcad about 10 years ago and it was absolute crap. It did not even properly open the SDT/386 files, without moving text labels etc around the place.
Many thanks in advance.
Peter