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Hi there,
Has any of you heard about when a Vista compatible version will be released?
Thanks :)
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Quartus 7.2 with SP1 or SP2 is "almost" Vista compatible. In plain 7.2 without Service Packs only the Quartus itself was Vista compatible, not SOPC or NIOS IDE.
With SP1 or SP2 the SOPC and NIOS IDE are now Vista compatible (at least from Altera's marketing point of view). In reality, there are few minor issues (what I've found):
- SOPC uses old Java version, which is not compatible with Vista. This makes Vista's Aero interface to be switched off. Not a problem when running SOPC builder, but when using command line tools, the Aero is switched off/on every couple of seconds thus making other desktop working difficult.
- one command line tool (nios2-bsp-update) requires user to click UAC message box's Allow-button thus stopping the automated build operation.
- GNU compilers in NIOS IDE still occasionally give errors and fail to compile the file (requires restarting the compile).
While waiting version 8.0 (which I've heard should be out around April/May), you might want to try 7.2 with SP2 in Vista to see if it works for you. Altera says it should ... :-)
Jari
Honored Contributor
