>>>>> [..]
>>> Use Spectrum Software's Micro-Cap (latest version is 12.2.05) instead
>>> of either of the above. Although popular, unless you want to simulate
>>> Linear Technology's controller IC's, I cannot see any reason why
>>> anyone with any sense would use it.
>>
>>Seems this one's abandoned now? Which I guess isn't necessarily a
>>problem, unless the "download" links at archive.org don't work... >>
>>Thanks for the alternative suggestion too!
>
> Certainly LT Spice has killed a lot of other simulation software, and > companies.
I mean, "Micro-Cap" was only killed off in the last year or two from what Wikipedia says (otherwise having lasted 40 years). It almost seems that the company was rather small and the owner(s) just closed up shop.
> I wonder if Raspberry Pi is doing something similar.
>
In what sense? I mean, there are a few handfuls of single-board PC makers out there now all chasing the "XYZPi" name since "Raspberry Pi" got big.