There are about 5, maybe, bugs there, but it is pretty easy to avoid them. Protel 95 and Protel 98 were horrible! Protel 99 showed promise. There was some way to build a duplicate license server for that case, by cloning the MAC of the server's ethernet card, but it is still a hassle. They also run the floating license locking system where if the license server breaks you can't use the program anymore. But I know that program would take me a year to learn and probably still is full of bugs. He dropped the price to 10k and later to 5k. I told him we still use PCB 2.8 so don't need it. I had the Altium salesman on the phone a while ago, pushing a GBP 20k product. The PCB 2.8 I have, GBP 1500 at the time, is a legit copy. It had Orcad SDT schematic import but the result was rubbish, with components moved around etc.
They did a PCB v3 but from what I saw it was full of bugs and barely usable. Was there ever a successor which retains the functionality without introducing massive bloat? Protel got taken over by various companies afterwards. It takes netlists from Orcad SDT/386 which also works great under XP, using the GDI drivers. It does all I need and has almost no bugs. This is a great package, 1995 vintage, which I still use, under windows XP (doesn't work under win7-64).
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