[Coco] Are MC68B09E's and HM63C09E's as well as various support chips still available?

[William Astle]

I doubt you need a virtual machine with more than 512MB (at most 1GB) 
for the Quartus stuff. That should run fine on a 4GB system.

That aside, with a minor bit of tinkering based on info in a forum 
somewhere, I got Quartus II 10.1 running on Linux Mint 12. I might have 
needed the 32 bit libraries but it's been too long and I don't recall. 
Most of the tinkering was to get it to detect the hardware properly as 
non-root. It found everything when run as root. The same tinkering got 
it running on Ubuntu 11.4.

All that said, there is one piece of the Altera stuff that absolutely 
requires Windows - the bit that allows programming the flash on the 
board. It does work in a VM with sufficient configuration of virtual 
devices, though.

Still, it was considerably harder than it should have been to get things 
running.

I haven't tried 11.1 yet. It might be better. I know that 10.1 was a lot 
better than the one that came on the CD which did something bizarre in a 
shell script.

On 12-05-25 08:55 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, May 25, 2012 10:47:44 AM John Kent did opine:
>
>> Altera Quartus II web edition version 11.1 is supposed to work with:
>> SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (32 bit)
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3&  4 (32 bit)
>> CentOS 4&  5 (32 bit)
>> Windows XP (32 bit)
>> Windows Vista (32 bit)
>> Windows 7 (32 bit)
>>
>> http://www.altera.com/literature/po/ss_quartussevswe.pdf
>>
>> It seems you have to buy the subscription version to run 64 bit OS
>> versions which is a bit of a pain.
>>
>> It looks like Xilinx 14.1 is similar although it seems to support both
>> 32&  64 bit OS versions.
>> They don't say they support CentOS or Vista.
>>
>> http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx14_1/irn.pd
>> f
>>
>> Anyway ... I guess most people running Linux already know all this.
>> Can you run virtualbox or vmware under Linux and run Linux under Linux ?
>
> I have read of folks doing it, but with only 4Gb of ram in this machine,
> maximum of 8, I'd imagine it would be running in swap  to do so. A 16Gb
> machine should handle that nicely.
>
> My problems with the FPGA devel kits stem from libraries they want, which
> have been deprecated even from later Centos6 installs.  Very very old stuff
> that has never been in the pclos repos since pclos was started.
>
>> On 26/05/2012 12:46 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:
>>> I've tried to get the Altera software to work on my workstation
>>> running Fedora and with a bit of work got the install to install the
>>> software and it even was able to get it to run. Unfortunately I could
>>> never get it to recognize the hardware. Of course the OS saw the
>>> board and could communicate with it enough to determine what it was.
>>> I reached out to Altera support a few times but never heard back from
>>> them. The next time I was cleaning up disk space I removed the
>>> software and unless I know it's going to work have no interest in
>>> trying anymore.
>>>
>>> The Other Frank
>
>
> Cheers, Gene