Mark Devito <
[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, April 4, 2003 at 7:05:56 AM UTC-6, Mark Cummings wrote:
If Protel can export PostScript, you can use Ghostscript to convert
PostScript to PBM and netpbm to convert PBM to PNG. IIRC, you could also >>> use Ghostscript to save directly to TIFF. Ghostscript has some options
that
let you set the resolution at which the input file is rendered...the
default
setting is too low for anything but the simplest designs, but you can set >> it
to 600 or 1200 dpi and get something that you could print onto film for
making boards. (I'd think that for enabling people to have boards made
instead of rolling their own, you'd want to provide Gerber and Excellon
files too...I'd think Protel can do that by itself. It's easier (and not >>> much more expensive...places like Olimex and Custom PCB are dirt-cheap for >>> small-quantity board production) for me to send files to a boardhouse than >>> to try making a board myself, and the quality is better.)
I can't export to anything other than Protel binary, Protel text or Orcad, >> and of course print to PDF. the latter option is what I have used as it
seems pretty popular, looks good in colour, and is really my only option
without scanning for now.
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anyway I have done the book and circuit finally, and they are here:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/figjams/apple2/AP-64e.PDF
http://home.iprimus.com.au/figjams/apple2/AP64Ecct.PDF
apologies for a lack of home page, havn't ever bothered to do that yet.
Mark
Hello to anyone still out there on this thread. I have been searching
the Internet high and low for gerbers and rom image dumps in order to
build an AP-64e. Seems like Apple II card-based burners are hard to come
by these days so DIY is the best solution. Does anyone here have board gerbers and/or the ROM dump?
Thanks in advance.
mark
Mark, unless it’s “against your religion,” I’d recommend getting a GQ-4x4
“USB Universal Programmer”, which is very reasonably priced and supported by Windows software. It can easily read and burn EPROMS (and much else).
I have had and used several Apple II EPROM cards, and though they
programmed the parts of the day well enough, they were not (able to be)
kept up with memory densities and technologies, even prior to 1990.
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