Did anyone here use #DOSBox (and @DOSBox_Staging) for things other than gaming?

For example, I use it for:

- compiling apps with the #Psion SIBO C SDK
- opening old schematics in #OrCAD

Some slight tweaks to my @DOSBox_Staging config, and I think I've settled on a winning combination.

I think the only two things I'd like are a keybinding to switch between windowresolution settings, and a keybinding to switch between cycles=auto and cycles=max. But I could try to do implement that myself.

Screenshots are of the #Psion SIBO Debugger, #OrCAD Draft 4.1,
#TopSpeed C, and the original DOS Psion Series 3c emulator (not the MAME one).

#DOSBox #16bit #RetroComputing #RetroDev

Question to the #electronics, #maker and #cad communities about #OrCAD.

Does anyone have an old OrCAD 4 SDT.CFG file set up for metric page sizes (A4, A3, etc)? I've hunted everywhere on the internet and I can only find English/Imperial sizes (A, B, C, etc).

I'm trying to import some old SCH files into newer versions of OrCAD. Either the page sizes are slightly too small, or the scale goes insane, or both.

#OrCAD update: Opening the files in a much newer version of OrCAD fixes that issue with the disappearing text. So that's good news.

However, it introduces a few new issues. Page sizes are wrong and basic components (e.g. resistors) are missing. This is going to be a combo of badly configured SDT.CFG (page size) and probably a missing library.

To be honest, I was having page size issues with OrCAD 7 anyway, and that's SDT.CFG.

Next stop, find an update to OrCAD 7 (7.2?) and take it from there.

Help! I need some ancient #OrCAD assistance!

I have some .SCH schematic files created in OrCAD 3.22. Opening them in Draft 4.1 in DOSBox works fine now that I've tweaked the SDT.CFG file. However, when I open some of them in Capture 7, some of the text disappears. The session log shows errors like:

Creation of a new alias object '***Text Here***' at 40.64, 58.42 failed, wire not found

Does anyone know why this might be happening? Is it something wrong with the SDT.CFG file?