[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

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