While I don't see fabrication problems with 90 degree corners which are produced by the autorouter, when I do manually route, I do 45 degree corners as well because it is a shorter trace. The autorouter is 20+ years old that was packaged with now-defunct WinBoard software. They had a "design for manufacturability" option for the autorouter that will create 45 degree corners except the option doubled the base price of the pcb software. I was too cheap to pay for it. Company (IVEX) was gone after 2003 and I never upgraded. I've done several hundred board designs with it on a Windows 98 laptop, so I'm sticking with it (until the laptop die).

PS, I'm fairly sure I'm the only person in the world using WinBoard. That either makes me unique or just plain crazy!
Bill

The proper word is "eccentric", and I promise that you have plenty of kindred spirits here.

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Got a kilobyte lying fallow in your 65xx's memory map? Sprinkle some VTL02C on it and see how it grows on you!

Mike B. (about me) (learning how to github)

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

Just go to show you when we said "retro", we meant retro in ways and means; retro for both the end products and the tools. Furthermore, them retro designers look pretty "retro" as well. We'll fit right in the Civil War Reenactment crowd, no questions asked! (Apology to sburrow who is retro only in heart).
Bill

HAHA, well I was BORN in the 80's, does that count?

Chad

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

As someone who works in the cyber security business, I have a knee-jerk reaction to people making admissions like this.

I mean, I also have a WinXP box, but it’s never connected to the Internet or the network.

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Blog – Zolatron 64 project

The best way of keeping retro hardware (like my Windows 98 board design tool) alive for 20+ years is turning it off when not using. It is also a surprisingly effective way of keeping computer virus away.
Bill

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

Here is the family portrait again but without the 68000 board. The bottom left is Prog65, 6502-based EPROM programmer, bottom right is revised CRC65 for both W65C02 and W65C816, top right is zero glue logic 6502, ZG6502; top center is A2CPLD, an experimental board for Apple II; and top left is UW2, a CPLD-based accelerator for Apple II. The Prog65, CRC65, and ZG6502 are working, I'm working on UW2 and A2CPLD. I will revisit each board individually and update the corresponding homepages.
Bill

I still say the biggest security blunder is allowing HTML in e-mail, especially scripting. That blame cannot be placed entirely on Microsoft.

Looks great! You are very productive

Chad

Every version of Windows is, indeed, a festering pit of insecurities. But some versions more than others. And, alas, common sense will only get you so far. Ask anyone in the infosec sector what is the single most important step in protecting yourself and they'll tell you - patching. (Running anti-malware packages generally comes way down the list.) And you can't patch unsupported software. You can be as cautious as you like, but it takes only one click to get hit with a drive-by infection.

Windows 10 is actually pretty good from a security standpoint - Microsoft has made a lot of improvments. But it's still saddled with legacy code - and legacy vulnerabilities!

As for me, I use Mac & Linux!

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Blog – Zolatron 64 project

Continuation of the Christmas theme because Chinese New Year is like Christmas.

Another batch of pc boards showed up this afternoon, just before the Chinese New Year. The two small boards on the right are the pc board version of the piggyback VGA. Center top is CPLD+6502 trainer; center bottom is VGA graphic+text board, the two boards on the left are the beginning of a new ecosystem of retro computing boards.

I'll go take a nap first before deciding on which one to tackle first...
Bill