Protel Autotrax and Win98

[Richard Hosking]

I have a (licensed!) copy of Autotrax which is now a bit long in the tooth,
but still works OK.
It has run happily under W95 for years, but I want to put it on a newer
computer with W98 - there sems to be problems with video drivers. The best I
can get is low res CGA
Anyone have later video drivers for this?

Thanks
Richard

 

[Alan]

I have a (licensed!) copy of Autotrax which is now a bit long in the tooth,
but still works OK.
It has run happily under W95 for years, but I want to put it on a newer
computer with W98 - there sems to be problems with video drivers. The best I
can get is low res CGA
Anyone have later video drivers for this?

Thanks
Richard

Richard

Have a look at:
http://www.airborn.com.au/layout/easytrax.html

HTH

Alan


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[Richard Hosking]

Many thanks for this
It will regenerate the old program
It looks like there is a better output option file as well for plotting to a
laser printer.

Richard

 

[Richard Hosking]

I have managed to get the program running well under W98, but now I find the
schematic libraries are reported as a "bad file format" and they wont load.
This in spite of reloading the libraries from disk. Has anyone faced this
problem? Was there a solution?

Thanks
Richard

 

[Chaos Master]

I have managed to get the program running well under W98, but now I find the
schematic libraries are reported as a "bad file format" and they wont load.
This in spite of reloading the libraries from disk. Has anyone faced this
problem? Was there a solution?

*I think* it's caused by a FAT32 file system or long file names, or installing
in a big hard drive. Or the files may be just corrupted.

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[Richard Hosking]

I reinstalled from the original disk - so they should not be corrupted. I
have an 80GB drive - I guess that could be relevant. Filenames are the same
as original - not longer than 8 characters. Any ideas on solutions?

Thanks
Richard

 

[Apollo]

I reinstalled from the original disk - so they should not be corrupted. I
have an 80GB drive - I guess that could be relevant. Filenames are the same
as original - not longer than 8 characters. Any ideas on solutions?

I run autotrax, and autotrax schematic, with libraries
for both - there is definitely no problem with long file
names, or having the programs on a large drive (etc).

However, the libraries for protel autotrax and protel
schematic are seperate, just like the PCB editor and
schematic editor programs themselves - and if you try
and load the library using the wrong program you will
get the error you describe.

I have a list of other stuff to watch out for! ...
http://www.airborn.com.au/layout/autotbug.html

Regards
Steve