programming software for USB Blaster

If you have a USB Blaster, you're actually sitting in a pretty good position. Other than some hardware rev's over the years, I don't think it's has change significantly.

Any version of the "Programming Software" from Altera's website should work for you (If you just want to program bitfiles)

If you are downloading the Quartus II web edition or Subscription addition, they basically have the programming software as part of the package.

The latest version is 11.1 SP2 on the altera site. We are getting close to 12.0 release so you may want to wait a bit.

I see a early build of 12.0 on software.altera.com now. It doesn't really say if it's Beta or just a nightly build or if this is the release canidate.. (Anyone else know of sure)

Pete