READ1.ME

Copyright (C) 1988  Thomas F. Droege, All right reserves.  

DROEGE - Design Robot for Origination of Exacting Graphic Engineering

Version 1.86   September, 1988

DROEGE is a general purpose Computer Aided Design (CAD) program for the manual 
layout of printed circuit boards.  The free version can normally handle 
circuits of about twenty chip equivalents.  

FEATURES

* 65000 by 65000 point layout area.  Normally 65" by 65" to one mil precision 
  but scale can be arbitrary.

* Twelve Layers.

* Three colors can be assigned to any of the twelve layers.

* Fifteen Line Widths.

* Very powerful symbol concept.  A symbol can be as simple as pads on several 
  layers, an IC layout, or a complete memory.  Symbols can call symbols to 
  level 20.  Symbols can be rotated.  

* Objects supported are lines, pads, symbols, labels, and arcs.

* Fifteen viewing screens allow redraw to any preset part of the layout 
  and to any scale.  

* Sixteen arrays allow quick changes between levels, line sizes, and colors.  

* Any layout grid is allowed and it can be changed during use.

* Stitch function allows fast switching between layers with automatic 
  insertion of vias.

* Symbols can be saved as libraries.  Symbol libraries can be merged.

* Complete job parameters are saved with the job so that the exact working 
  setup can be restored when work is continued.

* About 70 pages of documentation including several demonstration circuit 
  boards and several step by step exercises.

* Scaled check copy output to late model Epson (must support graphics mode 5) 
  dot matrix printers. 

ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF THE PURCHASED VERSION ($100.00)

* EGA support gives 3.5x the the number of working pixcells as the CGA.

* 16 Colors

* User installation of:

        Foreground, background color.
        Allocation of memory.
        Symbol table size.
        EGA/CGA Monitor.
        Mouse.
        Rubber band to cursor position.
        Printer width

* Edit by move, copy, insert, and change.

* Use of full 640K memory allows about 20,000 item entry.

* On screen setup table available with the EGA allows view of the many levels 
  and colors  assigned.

* Line drawings on HP plotters.

* Additional function allows redraw of a single level, or redraw of everything 
  with a specified level "on top".

* Printed 130 page indexed manual.

Print FIRST.DOC on disk 2 to get started.

DROEGE DISK1 - Program and demo files.

READ1    ME     Brief program description and file list - this listing.
DROEGE   EXE    The DROEGE program.
SETUP    PCD    Data file containing setup conditions for DROEGE.
SETUP    PCS    The initial condition symbol file for DROEGE.
DEMO     PCD    The setup condition file for the DEMO job.
DEMO     PCS    The symbol and job data for the DEMO job.
TUTOR    PCD    The setup condition file for the TUTOR job.
TUTOR    PCS    The symbol and job data for the TUTOR job.
APERDEF  PCD    The setup condition file for the APERDEF job.
APERDEF  PCS    The symbol and job data for the APERDEF job.
KEYBOARD LIB    A library of symbols for the keyboard letters.
ELEC     LIB    A few electronic symbols to get started.