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

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Because if you have, you've been wasting your time. You need ALtera's
> Quartus to play with the DE1...
>

It should probably also be noted that if you just want to use the
CoCo3FPGA (or other FPGA builds) on the DE1, you don't even need the
Quartus suite.  All you need is the DE1 Control Panel program (about
2MB) to write the coco roms to flash and the standalone "Quartus II
Programmer" tool (small, not sure size) to program the fpga.  Both are
on the CD that comes with the DE1, no download required.  You only
need that massive quartus suite if you plan on doing FPGA design work
yourself.