Subj : Re: IcyBoard 0.1.6 release
To   : Omnibrain
From : Shurato
Date : Tue Oct 07 2025 09:36 pm



 Om> pa> I have zero PCB experience, but I DO have TONS of PCB mods/stuff on
 Om> 2oFB
 Om> pa> - I'll try to get it installed and maybe I'll just try throwing a
 Om> bunch
 Om> pa> of legacy PCB code at it... will report if I do. :P


 Om> Would help - esp. feedback. PCB was let's say a nightmare to install/get
 Om> going. That was part of why it was so popular - high school kids thought
 Om> they were cool when they could manage to install that crap :).

 Om> Unfortunately icy board inherited that complexity - I tried to make it
 Om> easier but it's still needed to understand the PCB system. Feedback from
 Om> someone who never tried PCB would be interesting :).

 Om> But probably ~500 pages of PCB documentation is missing. Maybe that'll be
 Om> something that I need to work on. AGEGIS tried something like icy board
 Om> back in the 90' - started with a decompiler, compiler and then tried to re
 Om> create a modern PCBoard. They wrote lots of documentation about it -
 Om> because it was needed. (They never finished or got it as far as icy board
 Om> - internet killed it)

I have no PCBoard experience, but love the mods for it...  Night Rider's
board is so fricking slick!  I might take a look at this, but I'm not always
the quickest...

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