can we have the internal simulator back please

They already dropped simulation for Stratix V in Q9.1.

I don't have any experience with ModelSim (going back to the 80ties where a pencil drawn timing diagram is all what the smaller companies had to do PAL/EPLD design) but I wonder if you can do something simple as:

generate a file for say a Stratix II GX, do a simulation to see what comes out on the TX line of a GX-transceiver, copy the waveform on to the RX signal, and then simulate again. It was very easy to shift the reset, alignment request pulses and see how it behaved.

Incidently they also dropped support for some FLEX devices in Q9.1 also, so I will end up with 3 versions of QII on my system :9.0sp2 for Flex, 9.1sp for the Cyclone IV starterkit and as the last with the simulator, and Q10.0 (where we have to do as Xilinx (pardon my French) users do ...)

Using an external simulator is not really the issue I believe, it is rather the loss of the waveform editing that hurts us.

Driving Modelsim with Tcl (or some other script language?) may be interesting. Can you give a good example?