[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2014 22:28:32 Matthew Stock did opine:
>
>> Nick,
>>
>> Here's one source.  You need to also get the programming tools from
>> Altera to program the FPGA, but you'd need to do that with any
>> solution.  There are other sources as well.
>>
>> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&Categ
>> oryNo=165&No=83
>
> Which comes to $350 CAD
>
>> http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de1/unv-de1-board
>> .html
>
> The board is $200, software licensing cost is a secret.  I started to
> register there once, 2 years ago according the autosaved login firefox gave
> me, backed out when I saw the price, and have had to add their IP to a
> mailfilter rule, several different times because they change it, to get rid
> of the twice daily spam. Requests to turn off the spam machine just doubled
> it.
>
> IOW, screw them, and the camel that rode in on them.
>

The DE-1 comes with all the software you need to use CoCo3FPGA and
also the software to do some amount of FPGA programming (I don't know
exactly where the free version stops and the paid version begins, but
it was never an issue because I have never done any FPGA programming
at all :)

All you need to load CoCo3FPGA onto the DE-1 is the single .exe
control panel app.  None of the programming software (free or paid) is
needed.   The control panel is included on the CD that comes with the
DE-1, or google will show you how to download it if you ask for
DE1_Control_Panel.exe

-Aaron