Protel 99Se in a nutshell : Starting a projectĪdding files to your designTo add a document: simply right click on the whiteĪre of the project and select New. A local copy of the drivers will beplaced Protel’s install directory. Especially if the new drivers have replaced some functions with new ones using a different format. Some programs install New versions of the ODBC drivers. Protel uses this engine to store and retrieve documents in the DDB file. ODBC is the database engine used by MS Access. When opening a design it will be converted to the windows file system. Note: Protel DXP no longer supports the MS Access database. Windows File systemStores all related documents in one directory.Pro: No problems with ODBC driver.Con: Lots of files. MS Access Database.This stores everything in one file.Pro: one file = one project. You can now set the location, name and design type. At least it's a fairly good version too.Creating a new design is straightforward. I'm kind of stuck on AD13 now, due to our last government bringing in rules which restrict companies where an owner has a relative with a disability from making capex purchases, and significantly more evil stuff like that (but that's the way the whole world seems to be going). 99SE does import 2.8 very well, but I think Altium imports 2.8 fine as well. I use 99SE all the time - about half my clients still use it, though that number is dropping, and it's rarely used for the big boards these days, so in reality it has fallen behind (mostly used for pumping out small revision updates). It's like flushing money down the toilet, the flip side is 99SE worked and was very popular and I got work. But same problem, I upgraded to whatever the 2006 version was but despite being on that bandwagon I effectively didn't use Altium until about 2013. I was originally irritated by 99 and its DDB naffness (but that has its handy sides).
I paid for the naffness, but was effectively stuck on 2.8 for years until they sorted themselves out. 98 was the first useful version of that client / server naffness that worked ok IMO.
It was the last (best) Windows version before the silly client / server stuff was brought in (DXP, Altium etc).
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