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ProCAD Electronic V1.0 Demo
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Demo Release 31/01/94.
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Read Me First Document
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Price List....
ProCAD Electronic V1.0.................................£20.00+50p P&P.
ProCAD Custom Library Creator and PCB libraries Disk...£10.00+50p P&P.
ProCAD Complete Kit (contains both of above)...........£30.00 P&P inc.
ProCAD Extras Disk (see user guide)....................£5.00 +50p P&P
ProCAD Complete Kit+Extras Disk........................£35.00 P&P inc.
Please PRINT your name and address clearly and let me know which
workbench version you are using or which Amiga computer you intend to use
ProCAD on when ordering.
To order please send a cheque or post order, amounting to the above
fees. Made payable to:
D J Pell.
58 Ash Road
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO3O 2AG.
Tel. 0983 826006.
Dear Amiga enthusiast,
In this document I will out line what ProCAD Electronic V1.0 has to
offer you and give a little history of the program itself. First I wish to
thank you all for buying or 'coming by' this demo, it is of course public
domain and you may copy it and pass it on as much as you like, and in fact I
will be grateful for you doing just that. By the way, let me introduce my
self to you, my name is Derek Pell and I have been evolved in both
electronics and computer programming for some years now.
Before this however I wish to make one thing quite clear. Although
this demo will run on a 1mb machine, you will need a minimum of 2mb of memory
to run the full version. Since the birth of A500+/A600 with their 2mb
memory capacity, (with trap door expansion) the programing to the 2mb
standard has began and is becoming more and more popular with application
software just as the programming to the 1mb memory standard became excepted
two to three years ago. A 2mb memory will allow you to run ProCAD quite
happily with no memory infringements.
Many of you who will buy the full version from me will be as I was, a
college / university student, and I can assure you that you will find this
program a very valuable tool for giving you assignments the professional
touch with good quality prints of schematics and PCB artworks that will
ensure top marks!
If you are a home electronics enthusiast ProCAD has just as much to
offer you. It will allow you to produce clearly printed schematics for you
to follow when building your circuits or constructing printed circuit board
(PCB) layouts. If you like to build your projects on PCB's it will enable you
to plan your PCB layouts in a far easier approach than you could possibly
achieve on paper, further more it will enable you to produce clear prints of
component and track layouts to assist you in producing PCB artworks or 1 off
PCB's depending on how you work and your requirements. It is possible to
obtain direct artworks by printing or photocopying onto transparencies,
however this can be tricky and like me you may prefer to use artwork tapes
and transfers for a higher quality PCB. In the full version of the ProCAD
Users Guide I will give you my Wealth of experience in obtaining the best
results form both artwork methods.
If you are planing to use ProCAD for more commercial purposes then this
program will help you in the same way as the people above, and there is no
reason why ProCAD should not be used commercially. It will provided you with
a sensibly priced alternative to the top end CAD packages available on the
PC while saving you a small fortune!
If you are going to be using ProCAD to design PCB's you will also need
to buy the ProCAD Custom Library Creator (CLC) and PCB libraries disk. This
disk will give you all the necessary component packages to design your own
PCB layouts and the CLC will enable you to produces your own symbol libraries
and brushes for use in ProCAD. With a new set of libraries ProCAD can become
a new CAD tool for applications other than electronics if you wish!
Well that's what ProCAD has to offer you. Now for a little history.
ProCAD has been programmed in AMOS basic and compiled into machine language
to optimise performance. All graphic were drawn using Deluxe Paint III.
The full version of ProCAD is very near to completion and upon receiving
my first orders (if not before) I will create the full version disks. Over
the last few weeks both my self and my two beta testers have been testing
ProCAD to ensure that this software meats a very high standard. We do not
claim that this demo is 100% bug free, but we think that it is near it,
if you find anything suspicious which you think could be a bug then please
contact me. I plan to keep all full versions of ProCAD up to date, even in a
after sale situation, any bug reported will be fixed. Finally one of my beta
testers, Chris Firth has been kind enough to prepare a special 'Amiga Guide'/
'MultiView' fomat of the ProCAD users guide which will also be included on
the full version disks.
All that remains to be said now is, I hope you enjoy this demo and I
look forward to hearing form you in the future.
Thanking you one again for your interest in ProCAD Electronic.
Derek Pell.
Credits....
I would like to thank the following people and publishers who played
a big part in the development of ProCAD Electronic V1.0.
Francois Lionet / Europress Software for AMOS The Creator and compiler.
Daniel Silva / Electronic Arts for Deluxe Paint III.
Aaron Fothergill of The AMOS Club / Shadow Software for technical help.
Chris Firth. Beta testing and Amiga Guide version of ProCAD users guide.
Chris Warder. Beta testing.
End of Document.