Subj : Re: IcyBoard 0.1.6 release
To : paulie420
From : Omnibrain
Date : Tue Oct 07 2025 07:54 pm
pa>
pa> I have zero PCB experience, but I DO have TONS of PCB mods/stuff on 2oFB
pa> - I'll try to get it installed and maybe I'll just try throwing a bunch
pa> of legacy PCB code at it... will report if I do. :P
pa>
Would help - esp. feedback. PCB was let's say a nightmare to install/get going. That was part of why it was so popular - high school kids thought they were cool when they could manage to install that crap :).
Unfortunately icy board inherited that complexity - I tried to make it easier but it's still needed to understand the PCB system. Feedback from someone who never tried PCB would be interesting :).
But probably ~500 pages of PCB documentation is missing. Maybe that'll be something that I need to work on. AGEGIS tried something like icy board back in the 90' - started with a decompiler, compiler and then tried to re create a modern PCBoard. They wrote lots of documentation about it - because it was needed. (They never finished or got it as far as icy board - internet killed it)
