USB: FPGA to host communication - the same old story

Hi altera forum users,

I know this was already podted many times and read all the topics about that, but nothing works for me.

I want my PC as host and want to communicate with my FPGA design via USB. I have Terasic's famous DE1 Board and Quartus II 11.0sp1 Web Edition.

I have tried many ways, but nothing worked for me:

-using jtag_atlantic.dll doesn't work because I don't have vc++

-altera_jtag_to_avalon_mm_tutorial.pdf is a nice tutorial, but the communication based on quartus_stp, that's annoying!

-image_download_demo doesn't work because I don't have vc++. I could use eclipse environment too, but I don't know how it works in eclipse.

Please help me! I want to send/receive some bytes to/from the FPGA.

It's really annoying that Altera's USB programming support is so bad.