[Coco] Updated my CoCo3FPGA

[Joel Ewy]

On 10/01/2011 01:43 AM, John Kent wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> Looks good. With old version of Xilinx ISE, you used to have to use 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux, although I think CentOS (Community 
> Enterprise Edition) could be used too. It's good to see that you can 
> get it working under Ubuntu now. I was tempted to order some of those 
> VGA breakout boards but the postage to Australia might cost more than 
> the boards. 

They had them on sale for about $2 each, and domestic shipping cost more 
than 2 of the boards.

JCE

> I haven't kept up with the latest CoCo3FPGA releases.
>
> John.
>
> On 1/10/2011 1:39 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:
>> I just got my CoCo3FPGA upgraded to Gary's latest version that has 
>> 12-bit palettes and a real 256 color mode.  Now I need to hack up a 
>> quick and dirty picture file viewer that will take advantage of this 
>> new graphical goodness.
>>
>> If you want to see the details, I wrote it up on my blog:  
>> http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/new-version/
>>
>> In particular, there are some hints there about how to use the Xilinx 
>> software to program the configuration flash ROM.
>>
>> JCE
>