Proteus

What works

Pretty much everything.

What does not

There are some disturbances in the toolbar. The desktop behind is viewable through 'holes' in the toolbar, but this holes appear only between the buttons, so they are not very annoying. The first main problem is that sometimes when the mouse hovers over a toolbar proteus generates an exception and halts. However this problem is fixable by using this patch. The fix works excellent.

 The biggest problem is the mad scrolling in the pick device dialog. Clicking with the mouse anywhere in the parts list causes scrolling up and down, eventually selecting the part at the very bottom. So the user is forced to use the keyboard. A fix to this problem is not yet known.

Workarounds

What was not tested

VSM for analogue parts (the digital VSM was tested and works.)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

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Error : Proteus 8 Access violation in module 'VGDVC.DLL'

Workaround :

go to winetricks, if you don't have it, you can install it :

sudo aptitude install winetricks

or

sudo apt-get install winetricks

then open the GUI, either from the menu or a console :

winetricks --gui

then check, "Select the default wineprefix" and press OK.

then check, "Run regedit" and press OK again.

Now go to : 

-> HKEY_CURRENT_USER
 -> Software
   -> Labcenter Electronics
     -> Proteus 8 Professional

You should have the key "Default Graphics Mode" set to some particular integer like 3 or 2.

Change that to 1 by clicking on it twice and entering the number 1.

And you're done, this fix have been proven to work for Proteus 8x under Wine 1.8.7 under Debian Stretch. And should also work for other versions.

That was bloody easy wasn't it.