[PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7

[Dusan Mihajlovic]

Hi,

I have the same experience with Win7 and Protel. The only way I could manage to get it to work is to manually edit "ADVPCB99SE.INI" file and instead of the default library (PCB Footprints.lib) I place the path and name to the library I want to work with. Only Note that you must place the *.lib to the root of its *.ddb, otherwise you must specify the internal path in *.ddb also (which I did not tried).

I also noticed that PCB edit works much slower on Win7 that it did on WinXP. Do you have similar experience? I think it is somehow incompatible because on the Virtual WinXP (on the same machine) it works a lot better. I also tried to select Compatibility mode for Protel but that does not seem to have any effect.

Best regards,
Dusan Mihajlovic



----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Hendrix <SteveHx at HxEngineering.com>
To: peda at techservinc.com
Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 4:25:40 PM
Subject: [PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7

I finally had to bite the bullet and buy a new PC, skipped over XP and Vista directly to Windows 7. I have a mix of very old and very new "mission critical" apps. Protel 99SE is one of the former. Almost surprisingly, it installed and ran without a hitch. I was even able to bring all my settings and customizations over just by copying the INI files from the Windows directory.

However, I just discovered a hitch. I can open all my libraries just fine, but when I try to attach a library to the schematic editor "Add/Remove", Protel says "File is not recognized" (even though I had just opened it). Could this be related to the fact that all my user directories are on D: on the new machine, vs. C: on the old one? Doesn't seem to be, because I can put the library in the exact same directory on the new C drive and get the same result.

Any hints welcome!

Steve Hendrix



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