[Coco] First experiences with my DE1

[Joel Ewy]

On 02/16/2014 11:17 AM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
> My guess is the with only one person really developing the COCO3FPGA (Correct me if I am wrong on the only one person part) the documentation that has been developed is sufficient in his view.
You know, at one time Gary's source was available.  I have a copy of 
1.1, which is a bit out of date now, being from 2008.  Obviously if he 
doesn't want it distributed anymore we should respect that.  On the 
other hand, if someone were to fix a few bugs or add some modest 
features and submit them to him, I don't imagine he would complain. The 
code might be different enough now that it wouldn't merge back in 
nicely.  That version is pre-improved-graphics-modes and even 
pre-DriveWire.   Of course John Kent's CPU09 is GPL.

JCE

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> On Feb 16, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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>> My DE1 has arrived and I was keen to get my CoCo3FPGA system up and running!
>>
>> Many hours later, after harassing a few kind people with questions to the difficulties I was having, I finally got my DE1 running as a CoCo3... sort of.
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>> There were still some problems and my CoCo3 was booting in Extended Basic only.
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>> It was clear to me that for any complete newbie such as me to the world of FPGA, there is a real need for first-time-users instructions to get the CoCo3FPGA up and running smoothly.
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>> I decided to see how other communities have been handling the DE1 and I thought I search for the MSX systems.
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>> In less than a 3 minutes, Goggle search had me at a page describing the entire process of getting the MSX files and how to load them into a DE1.
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>> After grabbing the files and following the clear instructions on the website, I had an MSX 3 systems up and running within 10 minutes after my initial Google search.
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>> Why can't we have something like this for the CoCo3FPGA to entice new users?
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>> So, When I finally get my CoCo3FPGA up and running properly, I plan to create a similar page for this to explain to other newbies how to setup the DE1 with CoCo3FPGA.
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>> The MSX instructions for those with a DE1 and wish to try it out are here:
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>> http://www.msxinfo.net/2013/03/19/howto-flashing-the-altera-de1-as-a-msx/
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>> Nick
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