Protel Autotrax video drivers

[Steve]

For a few years now we have made available a video
driver for Protel Autotrax (a DOS PCB layout package).
These video drivers run under VESA bios and allow
Autotrax to be used at higher screen resolutions than
the rather limiting 640 x 480 that VGA otherwise provides.

Vesa drivers: http://airborn.com.au/layout/easytrax.html

However these days not all video adaptors have good VESA
support, - its getting out of date. We now have another
driver, written specifically for XP, using directx

New driver: http://airborn.com.au/layout/autoxpdv.html

This new driver is still in "Beta trial" but offers an
alternative to people who want to use Autotrax (which
is now free from Altium) on newer machines.
Both drivers are free and open source.

Regards
Steve
www.airborn.com.au

 

[Craig Hart]

Now, that's impressive. Well done guys.

 

[Kendall Castor-Perry]

My thanks too! Just migrated to XP and was having dire problems with
Autotrax until I found this.

Now, does anyone have a similar trick up their sleeves for OrCad SDT? At
the moment I can't get this to run at all, with any driver, even vanilla
VGA. Halts before it's even come up with the full list of libraries so I'm
not sure it's even a video driver issue.

cheers / Kendall