[Coco] Howto for Altera DE1?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Mark McDougall wrote:

> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> Steve's recent experience seems to be a worst case combination of
>> things... using a platform the DE1 software doesn't support for
>> starters.  From the small number of people I know using CoCo3FPGA,
>> I've seen no one else run into nearly so much trouble.
>
> Believe me, the sorts of issues Steve is having is common to every FPGA 
> project I've seen, including those that run on only 1 platform. In fact, 
> Steve's issues pale into comparison with those on the C-One, which *is* a 
> purpose-built platform. Minimig (Amiga 500) & Zet (x86) on the DE1 have 
> plenty of "newbie" posts as well.
>
> It comes with the territory, and is typical of projects of this nature. But 
> once Steve's over the hurdle of getting Coco3FPGA running for the first time 
> - something not too painful with the help of the community - it should be 
> reasonably smooth sailing from there-on in (assuming of course that one is 
> capable of reading switch labels! - j/k Steve! ;))

Jeez, Louise...  I'm never going to live that down, am I.



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