[PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7

[Leonard Gabrielson]

I am using Sun's 'Virtual Box' so that P99SE runs on my Vista 64 computer. 
You might want to give it a try.  It's free, and works great for me.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dusan Mihajlovic" <mdusan2001 at yahoo.com>
To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <peda at techservinc.com>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7


> Hi,
>
> sorry to hear that it doesn't work for you. I also haven't succeed from 
> the first attempt.
>
> Can you try this to see if it is possible to work:
>
> 1. Copy "DC to DC.ddb" to root of the C drive.
>
> 2. Replace this line from "ADVPCB99SE.INI"
>
> File0=D>MSACCESS:$RP>C:\Program Files\Design Explorer 99 
> SE\Library\Pcb\Generic Footprints$RN>Advpcb.ddb$OP>$ON>PCB 
> Footprints.lib$ID>-1$ATTR>0$E>PCBLIB$STF>
>
> and replace it with this one:
>
> File0=D>MSACCESS:$RP>C:$RN>DC to DC.ddb$OP>$ON>DC to 
> DC.lib$ID>-1$ATTR>0$E>PCBLIB$STF>
>
> This works for me.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Hendrix <SteveHx at HxEngineering.com>
> To: Protel EDA Discussion List <peda at techservinc.com>
> Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 4:01:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7
>
> I already tried editing the ini files manually, and my libs are at
> the root of the ddb file. Still no joy. But Protel has no problem
> loading and editing the lib files, it just won't accept them as valid
> files afterwards.
>
> FWIW I'm finding editing to be much faster under Win7. But that may
> have to do with a difference in video hardware too.
>
> Still looking for a way to get those libraries loaded.....
>
> Steve Hendrix
>
> At 2010-03-19 09:37 AM, you wrote:
>>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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