Tube CAD availability?

[Shannon Parks]

Anyone know where to get a legal copy? I see AES no longer stocks this item (or SE CAD). I wonder if the non-64-bit support had John pull support.

Shannon

[TomMcNally]

Look here:

http://www.glass-ware.com/GlassWare_Programs.htm

[Geek]

404 on the TubeCad

I had a copy (legit) and it was bum. Was told no Vista support

[Shannon Parks]

404 on the TubeCad

I had a copy (legit) and it was bum. Was told no Vista support

Geek, here's how to use on the newer (namely 64-bit) Windows OSes:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5379

I've always liked recommending it to folks in the past, but I guess it might be history. I presume that the code mods and recompiling for modern Windows might not be worth John's time. Indeed, it could require an entire rewrite.

Shannon

[Geek]

Acer Aspire 5720-4663 - it's 32 bit... no one figured out why it wouldn't run

Will try it!

[msmpe]

New OPSYS that obsolete existing software is total crap - thanks MS

[zippy1540]

Seems Glassware no longer sells Tubecad software from what i can tell. Anyone know how to get a copy of tubecad se software? I have an old machine with a clean copy of windows XP on it. I'm keeping it just to run the tubecad software if i can find it.
Thanks,
Paul

[zippy1540]

I got an e-mail back in july from John about Tubecad.
"Hi Paul,
The Tube CAD and SE CAD programs are long in the tooth and will not run under Windows 7 or any 64-bit Windows OS, alas. Last year bought over $800 worth of software upgrades, so I can remake the programs, but I haven't had the chance yet.

John"


I just e-mailed him again to see if i could purchase the old programs since i have a machine that will run them. We'll see what he says. I'll keep everyone in the loop once i find out.
Paul

[zippy1540]

Nothing from John, I would love to buy but since he's not answering ...anyone have a copy i could get? I'm looking for SE Amp cad and possible the one for Push Pull.
Thanks,
Paul

[mesherm]

I bought Tube CAD, SE CAD and TCJ Push-Pull Calculator way back when and run it all on a little Acer netbook running Win XP. I also have the TCJ Push-Pull Calculator V2 which Broskie sent to me later after some correspondence.

[Shannon Parks]

Nothing from John, I would love to buy but since he's not answering ...anyone have a copy i could get? I'm looking for SE Amp cad and possible the one for Push Pull.
Thanks,
Paul

You should still be able to purchase (via download) the Push-Pull Calculator:
http://glass-ware.stores.yahoo.net/noname1.html

Shannon

[zippy1540]

Thanks Shannon, just ordered it. Hopefully the download e-mail shows up shortly.
Paul

[pmarcin]

msmpe, MS never had backward compatibility. It sucks. The worst example: MSVC++ 5.0 and 6.0 DLLs were totally incompatible. A 6.0 DLL on a 5.0 maching would cause a hard crash. You had to have virgin 5.0 and 6.0 machines to do development. Incompatible DLLs are still a huge
problem. I could go on.

Another huge issue occurred when MS lost a lawsuit to Sun over Java issues.Gates is very vindictive to the point where bugs pop up time and again in Java related software. In a recent bug, Java Ant scripts would overrun the MS console buffer because the Ant software was issuing and receiving the wrong sync primitives.

MS is really horrible. There are far fewer problems with Apple or Linux.
P

[zippy1540]

Unfortunately a majority of the business world is set up on windows platforms so nothing is really compatible outside of the windows environment.

[Geek]

Unfortunately a majority of the business world is set up on windows platforms so nothing is really compatible outside of the windows environment.

Actually, they are going cross platform with the domination of Android and iOS in tablets and phones with the desktop computer on the decline.

There's little that can't be done in Java and scripted languages nowadays that there's enough CPU and RAM cheap enough to run it as fast as good ol' compiled C.

It's economic suicide in the 21st century for a programmer to write code that'll run on maybe 2 generations of a single OS.

Cheers!