FPGA VAX update

[Michael Sokolov]

Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:

> How well do they encrypt the ZIPs?  There are some pretty powerful
> ZIPcracking tools out there.

Well, it's no longer a concern for me.  I don't give a damn about Xilinx
any more.  I've just got the CD with Altera's Quartus for Linux and it's
all normal tarballs, which I have unpacked just fine manually without
using any installer.  Then after giving it a bootleg license file I've
got the command line tools working.

So, reiterating for those who haven't caught the gist - I now have
working command line tools under Linux (no Winblows, no GUI, no X display
needed) for compiling Altera FPGAs.  I start with Verilog sources and
get an SOF (SRAM object file) for the FPGA, all command line controlled
by a Makefile, just like compiling C code with cc under UNIX.  Isn't
this something to celebrate?

MS