Quote from: ckoeber on January 31, 2014, 02:28:50 AM

Makes no sense; ASIC miners have completely taken over the SHA-256 mining arena to the point where it is laughable for anyone to suggest they'll mine a SHA-256 coin with a graphics card.

Without scrypt cgminer is a complete waste of electricity to run.

That is why he removed scrypt support in 3.8. From what I read, the developer of cgminer does not believe in altcoins, and does not want to support them or the code behind it. So 3.7.2 was the last version with scrypt support. cgminer is focused purely on SHA-256 for ASIC miners.

I don't know that is why the compiled versions are removed from the site, but it wouldn't surprise me. Regardless, other people have forked the code and support scrypt, Kalroth and whoever is doing sgminer.

http://k-dev.net/cgminer/

http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1va8g2/ann_sgminer_400_release/

I dig Kalroth's version so far because of the better reconnect times, but SGMiner seems solid too.