There should be a note about original Berkeley SPICE. There are some source tarballs available and sometimes even binaries (usually of ver. 3f5 with some patches and upgrades), so there is a good chance to get working binary for one's system. Spice 3f5 has some graphical capability.
Wojciech Kazubski > > On Thursday 20 May 2004 09:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > > Happy reading, and I look forward to your comments, > > > > Why do you promote LT-Spice? It's a closed source rip of spice. > > Closed source "free" software is a major threat to real free > > software. > > The HOWTO is about doing SPICE simulations on Linux. LTSpice is a > great SPICE simulator, it is much more stable & complete than > [ng|tcl]spice, and it runs on Linux. > > My focus is getting the job done, not necessarily promoting GPLed > software, or the FSF's agenda. I do agree with the FSF's principles & > goals, but that consideration is secondary to getting the job done. > > > I suppose it would be too much to suggest that Gnucap does > > belong there. > > You have an excellent point: I should also include Gnucap. > > When I originally started looking into the area of SPICE on Linux, I > was led to believe that Gnucap was something slightly different from > SPICE. My interest at the time was in simulating circuits > incorporating SPICE models from various vendors -- e.g. Analog > Devices, National, etc. I didn't want to play around with something > non-standard 'cause I was having enough trouble getting *spice to work > properly. Therefore I didn't try Gnucap, and my understanding of the > free SPICE arena was shaped by that experience. > > Moving forward, I should probably include a blurb about Gnucap in the > HOWTO. Are you willing to write one or two pages describing how to > install and run Gnucap? I'd of course stick you in as a contributor. > > Alternatively, I will investigate Gnucap myself & write the blurb. > This might take a long time -- e.g. months -- because time is > currently constrained. But it is now on the "to do" list. > > Thanks for reminding me to include Gnucap. > > Stuart
