I already went to Assignments -> Settings -> VHDL input, but 1993 or 2008 makes no difference.
I'm just noticing you wrote Quartus Prime Pro, I'm using Lite. I hope it's not that.
As far as not using fixed_pkg at all, I don't know how involved that is.
With the package it seems,
- I can easily declare variables
- just use operators without having to worry about the decimal point
- use resize etc.
Reinventing the wheel is prone to introducing errors, whilst a mature package already exists.
I still have David Bishop's stuff downloaded. Maybe I'll get that to work. I'm sure people have succeeded doing that.