They offer a free version with circuit size limitations. A college has an old full version that I acassionally use and I think is just great with a more intuitive interface than most, which will probably suit some one that never used a pspice type of program. Best Regards Luis On 1 Nov 2013 11:16, "Richard Pytelewski" wrote: > What is the price? ... the site doesn't have any pricing info! > > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf > Of > Antonio Benci > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:17 AM > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: Re: [EE] I Got burned by PSpice > > Have a look at: > > http://www.simetrix.co.uk/site/index.html > > and try the demo version. My students use it for their circuit analysis > work > in 3rd year labs. > > Regards, > > Antonio Benci. > > On 1/11/2013 3:24 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > I did a bad thing, and I cannot believe how stupid I was. > > > > I have Introductory Circuit Analysis by Robert L Boylestad, 11th editio= n, > and highly recommended by some in this group. It is one of the best I've > seen and read, and I very highly recommend it, too. > > > > In it he uses PSpice software in some of his examples. Now, this editi= on > is from I think 2007. > > > > So I found PSpice Student 9.1 Student version from softronic (google wi= ll > bring it first), thinking that my PC is heavily protected by up-to-date > virus/etc software, and I got sucked in. Big time. > > > > When it installed I saw browsers opening up that I didn't ask for, and = I > knew I had been screwed. It changed my home pages for my browsers and al= so > inserted MyWebSearch as default search engines, and more. It took me abo= ut > an hour or so to get rid of it all. Needless to say, I was torqued off b= ig > time. > > > > Needless to say that when I deleted softronic crap it left the malware, > and all that. And when I installed it, I said no to any questions it ask= ed > about additional software. > > > > Rant over: Now my question. Obviously PSpice is out, but is there an > alternative to it? Or perhaps an "honest" version that I could trust? H= as > anyone used it? Or gotten suckered in like me? > > > > Thanks! > > Lindy > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .