Alternative to DE1 control panel?

The only examples I've seen of programming a parallel flash uses a NIOS 2 processor on the FPGA that talks to the flash programmer (not quartus programmer as I said above). On youtube there is a "my first nios ii" tutorial that does this in the 2nd half of part 2. It's for a DE2 board, so you might need to change the timing settings based on the flash chip on the DE1 if it is different than the DE2. It is an older tutorial based on sopc builder, not QSYS. Still you might be able to figure out how to set up a QSYS nios system on the DE1 using that tutorial as guidance.