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Hi Ion,
Assuming you still have a computer old enough to have a parallel port, then the MAX+PLUSII installer should have the drivers for the dongle. The dongles were never used to license a specific version of MAX+PLUSII, so long as you have a license file that matches the dongle, it should work fine. (That is my guess anyway!).
Cheers,
Dave
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Dear Dave,
May thank again, you are very kind and have lot of knowledge about Altera. Yes indeed, I have an old computer (Win 2000) with parallel pot and legal brought dongle about year 1997 when started to use intensively Altera FPGA for industrial equipment PLC.
As I told, I mostly replace the TTL ad CMOS old fashion devices by FPGA maintaining same schematics configuration by FPGA, thus I need access to Graphical design on MAX plus ii SW and of course parallel port for byte blaster JTAG in circuit programmer.
Surprisingly when I installed from ALTERA server new SW(10.0 or higher) it doesn't recognize the dongle or when it does gives only limited functional access/ features i.e. not graphical or compiling possibility. I don't know how shall install authorization file for my dongle in the new installed SW to get all functionality.
Please sorry for such long email, maybe you my give an hint to go around that problem.
Happy New Year,
Ion
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