We ahve been using Alcat since we started our club.
Have had a few problems in it but they are manily due to the specifications that we ourselves put into the program preferences.
For 1.5 years now we have been counting laps with two people calling cars as they cross a line then tapping the num pad for them to register.
New clubs like ours dont even have a "Club computer"
due to the costs of getting one. Money is alwasy in short supply especially so at a brand new club trying to get off its feet but i am sure if you have problems with alycat new or old versions something can be done to fix it and what i have heard and mainly found out ourselves is that its most likely preference file related or just outdated hardware drivers.
But the guys at Alycat do their best to try to fix these problems just drop them a line.
Cheers