[Coco] Cococompatible monitors... [Now CoCo3FPGA, FPGA Development, and GIME replacement]

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:59:11 PM Mark McDougall did opine:

> On 7/07/2011 1:23 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:03:39 PM Joel Ewy did opine:
> >> On 07/05/2011 03:10 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> >>>> This is the only thing I have bookmarked:
> >>>> http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.htm
> > 
> > Also, while that was the only error reported, I cannot find anything
> > to execute except the update checker, which dutifully reports that I
> > can update my 13.1 install with 13.1.  Sort of dumb.
> > 
> > Is this stuff so married to finding the DE1 board that it silently
> > won't run w/o one plugged into a usb hub and powered up?  Or do I
> > need to reboot, and reinstall again (if it will let me run the
> > installer again, I haven't tried) using the same defaults as before?
> 
> I may have my wires crossed here, but I'm hoping you haven't been
> installing Xilinx ISE to use with the DE1, have you?
> 
I probably got my tongue tangled up around my eye teeth & couldn't see what 
I was saying. ;-)  I had in mind ordering the board for the biggest spartan 
3, so I dl'd the xilinx ISE kit.

> Because if you have, you've been wasting your time. You need ALtera's
> Quartus to play with the DE1...

I see that now.

Thanks Mark.

Cheers, gene
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