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

[Steven Hirsch]

On Fri, 25 May 2012, gene heskett wrote:

> On Friday, May 25, 2012 08:52:23 AM Mike Rowen did opine:
>
>> John,
>>
>> I enjoy reading your posts, but your skills are lightyears ahead of mine
>> and I can't really contribute to the conversation. Is there an emoticon
>> for envy?? :) Keep up the great FPGA work!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Mike
>>
>> On May 25, 2012, at 6:09 AM, John Kent <jekent at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>> On 25/05/2012 12:08 PM, John Kent wrote:
>>>> On 25/05/2012 4:22 AM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>>>>> On 23 May 2012 at 23:47, Computer Doc wrote:
>>>>>> Has anyone recreated the 6809 or the 6309 in one of the FPGAs as a
>>>>>> separate chip for inclusion in a breadboard design?  I'm glad to
>>>>>> have found others that are into the Coco 3 as much I was and am
>>>>>> again.  Have a great day and may God Richly Bless You all.  Thank
>>>>>> you all in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> The 6809 as well as a complete Coco3 has been reproduced within both
>>>>> the XILINX and ALtera FPGAs. As to this date I am unaware of anyone
>>>>> that has done a 6309 in an FPGA.
>
> I'm with you folks, but the devel kits from either maker will not install
> or build on this particular version of linux.  So my chances of doing
> anything useful, at least until I switch distros, are pretty close to zip.

It can be a bit of a battle, but I've had Quartus 9.1 and Xilinx ISE 10.1 
working fine (in 32-bit mode) on Ubuntu 10.04 for a few years.

I tend to avoid the bleeding edge, and generally run out the LTS 
(long-term support) versions of Ubuntu until I absolutely have to update.



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