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Steve wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:25 pm Were there any good PCB design and schematic software on Atari?
Wasn't "scooter" a PCB program, never used Atari stuff though.
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Re: PCB manufacturing and software recommends

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I just found this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCB_(software)

Apparently first released on the Atari ST in 1990.
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And I found this:
https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 9&p=349647

Apparently Platon was some very serious software and required a TT with high resolution to be used properly! :d
A review:
http://www.stcarchiv.de/stc1990/03/platon
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Re: PCB manufacturing and software recommends

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exxos wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:38 pm
Steve wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:25 pm Were there any good PCB design and schematic software on Atari?
Wasn't "scooter" a PCB program, never used Atari stuff though.
I found scooter here:
https://milan.kovac.cc/atari/software/? ... APHIC/_CAD

I'm gonna test these old programs out for fun :)
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