Poll: Do you want the internal simulator back?

Yes. Bring it back please. There are many of us who used to do real work with it.

I have used it for 15 years. Seriously, why did they remove it? What idiot bean-counter thought that was a good idea? I can hear it now, some idiot 22 year old in a board meeting saying “I know, lets throw away 20+ years of a working tool, and **** off thousands of our customers, so we can help another company profit from our own stupidity, all the while reducing short term costs in the (very small budget) set aside for the simulator team” That’s great long-term thinking! This decision was obviously made by someone who has never used an FPGA in his / her life for anything real.

Hey Altera – LISTEN UP: Not every FPGA design is a matlab-simulink-to-hardware design that can only be simulated using automatically generated vhdl test benches!! Some of us real engineers design some very real things, selling thousands of your chips using the tools that have been refined for 15+years. Don’t alienate us! – If you must move on then at least replace the tool with something just as easy to use! Seriously, Are you retarded?

This is just as stupid as the idiots at Microsoft totally re-engineering the windoze user interface that we have all become accustom to. I use the tools to do my job - I am not excited abut the prospect of "getting" to learn a new user interface because it looks cooler. I have actual work to do, and when you add to my load by changing where things are, I get ****ed! Yes, I am angry, deal with it. I am your customer. I write part of your paycheck.

This idiot pop-culture mentality belongs on MTV - not in my design tool.

So, yeah, bring it back please.