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As I understand the history, CircuitMaker was a schematic capture and 
circuit simulation program designed for the Mac.  Protel designed 
Autotrax for DOS and ultimately sold this to Matt and company...they 
renamed it TraxMaker and brought it into the world of Windows when they 
did likewise for their CircuitMaker product.  I bought the package back 
in '97 or '98 and then they sold their company to Protel, now Altium, in 
about 2001.  Perhaps Jim Wagner can assist here as I believe he was also 
a user.

I'm still using CircuitMaker but it's a Win95 program and operates as 
such.  Some of the newer hardware isn't supported (scroll mouse 
specifically) and the package isn't supported any longer, which might 
not be a bad thing when all the screaming's done.  It works okay for now 
within its limitations, I'm just looking to the future as it does some 
funny things from time to time under WinXP that I don't remember under 
Win 95 and 98.  I suspect this is a result of their original Mac to 
Windows port.

It's too bad when a big guy buys a little guy just to make the product 
go Tango Uniform.  This was a really nice package for less than a 
kilobuck US.  Oh well, if you can't beat 'em buy 'em.


REB


John Samperi wrote:

>At 10:57 AM 16/09/2006, you wrote:
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>>I've been using CircuitMaker and TraxMaker for the past several years
>>with no trouble to speak of but Altium (ProTel) has now bought the
>>software and decided not to support it any longer a couple of years
>>ago.
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>I'm confused, I thought it was the other way around that
>Altium (Protel) sold the code to the old software and
>a new version was born as Circuitmaker. What stops you using
>Circuitmaker? Did you purchase it or is it a new package that
>you are after? Of course you can still download Autotrax 1.61
>for nothing from Altium site (well hidden lately).
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>Regards
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>John Samperi
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