[Coco] Howto for Altera DE1?

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 07:38:20 EDT 2010


On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> Ah.. that makes sense.   So I gave some bad advice, I was assuming the
> version on the FPGA page was what I have here.
> Don't use the "becker" disk unless you're running the high
> speed/enhanced drivewire version of CoCo3FGPA, otherwise use a
> standard 40 track disk as Gary suggested.  You don't need any special
> drivers in that version.

Ok, but bear with me here...  Does the version of the fpga code from Yahoo 
support DriveWire at all?  If not, how do I make the image of the 40-track 
disk accessible to the board?

> I just confirmed that the version I have does not work at 115.2k, only 
> 460k (so therefore cannot work with DW3) Also, it requires a more recent 
> version of the DW4 server than what I've made available on the beta 
> page.
.
> I think we should delay a bit until Gary has time to put things in
> sync, then I'll update the DW4 beta release and everything will be
> consistent.

Sounds fine.  I'll be happy to play with the older image.

Steve


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