[Coco] DriveWire on the DE1

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Gary, I've just had a look at the DE1. It is worth every penny of the $150 
price - I am definately going to get one (hurry up Christmas :-). It blows 
my Digilent board out of the water. It looks like a perfect board for just 
about any FPGA Vintage Computer System On a Chip design.
Kudos for your great work.
Has anyone ever designed a 6309 CPU core?
Thanks - John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becker, Gary" <Gary.Becker at amd.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire on the DE1


> For the last few days I have been doing everything on the DE1. I will 
> update everything for the Xilinx Spartan 3 platform in a few days. Since I 
> have my Sound, Joystick port, and second serial port analog board on the 
> Xilinx platform, I do a lot with it. But when we get all the features of 
> the DE1, sound / SD card, it will be hard to beat. But I intend on 
> supporting all features that the hardware supports on both platforms.
>
> I will post the latest builds for the DE1 on the Yahoo group in a day or 
> so. And will post the builds for the Xilinx boards when I get it working.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Hirsch [mailto:snhirsch at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:52 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire on the DE1
>
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>>
>>> Running the CoCo 3 at 25MHz on the DE1 with DriveWire is an amazing
>>> experience.  Thanks Gary for your hard work.  I know this will only get
>>> better with time.
>>
>> And another question:  Does Altera offer a time-unlimited "personal" 
>> version
>> of the their development software?  I'm a bit loathe to invest in 
>> something
>> for which I need to keep re-registering 30-day trials or grabbing a 
>> cracked
>> version from an .ru website somewhere :-).
>>
>> The Xilinx ISE environment is limited in terms of synthesis complexity 
>> and
>> has no built-in timeout.  Not clear if Altera does anything similar.
>
> Nevermind... Answered my own question.  For the edification of others,
> their Quartus II software package (no Linux support - boo) is available
> for free download and is not time-limited.  It simply lacks some features
> of the pay-through-the-nose commercial version ($3500/yr - ouch).
>
> Question for Gary Becker, if he's listening:  Is the 1M gate Xilinx
> Spartan 3 equally well supported by the CoCo project?  Do you anticipate
> that it will continue to be?
>
> I ask because I'm passingly familiar with the ISE environment and would
> prefer to develop under Linux.  Boards appear to be the same price.
>
> Steve
>
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