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Costas Vlachos wrote:

> 
> BoardMaker 2... Brings back some good memories... I've used it extensively
> in the past and liked it a lot. Still have it somewhere in the HD. I guess
> I'll have to boot in MS-DOS to be able to run it... Although in DOS, I still
> find BM2 much easier to use than some of the new PCB apps under Windows.
> 
> Was wondering, have you ever sent Gerbers from BM2 to any of the PCB
> companies? Are the Gerbers that BM2 generates fully compatible?
> 

BM2 will work under W95/98/se, in full- screen mode, though it
occasionally froze when I used it.

I used Boardmaker for years, increasingly frustrated by its antiquity.
One probelm was Tsien's predatory upgrade policy. You might be
interested to note that recent issues of EasyPC can import Boardmaker
files, successfully enough to get me out of the merde when asked
unexpectedly for a small change to an ancient project...

Nobody ever seemed to have much problem using Gerbers from BM2, though
they were a bit limited in resolution on my version.

Someone mentioned that Tsien died some time ago... their website was
still there last time I looked. It wouldn't surprise me though, they
tried to move Boardmaker 3 on the basis of a (very high) annual license
fee.

Paul Burke