[Coco] DE-1 Control Panel woes

[Dave Philipsen]

Thanks for the info, Leslie. I did write a flash uploader program designed to take the place of the control panel.  Kip Koon tried it once and successfully burned the CoCo ROMs to flash.  It’s a sof file that installs a 6809 core with a small program that sets up an xmodem transfer over the serial port to get the file onto the DE1 and then flash the chip.  If some are having trouble with the control panel software that might be an alternative.

Dave

> On Oct 30, 2017, at 4:00 AM, Leslie Ayling <layling at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave, et al.
> 
> I'm inclined to think that Terasic have altered the firmware in the EPM3128 CPLD which 
> provides the USB Blaster functionality at least one (or more) times.
> 
> I have had two DE1's on the bench at one point which each required a *different* control panel version
> to operate correctly, even though I was using the same version of Quartus.
> 
> ---
> 
> Some of the earlier Control Panel versions seem to only work with a 32-bit version of Quartus.
> 
> Q2 V13.0sp1 installs both 32 *and* 64 versions by default (on Windoze anyway, don't know about linux), so that can also be a source of frustration. 
> I keep a VM Windows XP 32-bit Q2 install handy for that very reason.
> 
> --- 
> 
> It's just a shame that Terasic have never publicly released any details of which Control Panel versions are designed to work
> with which revisions of the DE1 board, or which Quartus version :(
> 
> Might be an idea to collect all version of the DE1 Control Panel application over in the files are of the coco3fpga group?
> 
> Regards,
> Leslie
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Dave Philipsen
> Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2017 11:58 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DE-1 Clarification Please
> 
> It’s *definitely* a problem with the control panel software.  The DE1 board itself is not to blame.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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