> Whoa! Thanks for your effort to make this suite "run on Windows", kind of. I think
> gEDA is the best of the freely available EDAs, even if it seems immature in some
> respects: it tends to leave trails of pixels when moving parts around; Selecting and
> dragging parts sometimes yields unexpected results, e.g. corners which stay in their
> old location.
>
> Anyway, with schematics captured with gEDA you will definitely have something more
> useable than ExpressPCB, because the schematics file format is pretty simple ASCII
> text and because there are so many output filters.
>
> Meanwhile, because I wasn't totally happy with gEDA, I thought I start my own. The
> first thing I did was writing a part library editor (pedit) and I already have a lot
> of the commonly used parts. See screenshots.
>
> When I'm finished with the parts used for e.g. Pong I'll write the schematics editor
> (probably sedit) and see to make it use a schematics format that can directly be
> loaded into the TTL emulation.
>
> Both tools will just require SDL and as such should run on all platforms.
>
> Juergen
Hey, that's *great*. At least with this approach you'll end up with tools aimed specifically at the project.
I meant to ask before, how had you built the xml netlist before - more or less by hand?
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