BeMicro Platform support

[Altera_Forum]

What platforms can be tweaked to work and what is an absolute no-go? 

 Will there be support for linux, win7_64, vista_64?

[Altera_Forum]

From experience at work, Altera does not really support 64-bit versions of windows yet, but we've been told that the next version of Quartus should support 64-bit windows and USB drivers in 64-bit windows. Don't expect a Bemicro driver until then.  

 I asked Arrow the question about Linux back on Jan 8th. I could not find a response in my inbox, so I don't think they ever responded. FTDI, which makes the interface chip, has Linux drivers and Altera has Linux support for the USB-Blaster, so this is probably more an Arrow question rather then an Altera one.

[Altera_Forum]

Altera does support 64-bit Windows (and Linux), please see page 13: 

 http://www.altera.com/literature/manual/quartus_install.pdf

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Altera does support 64-bit Windows (and Linux)  --- Quote End ---    I haven't tried, but my coworker is still trying to get the USB-Blaster to work in Windows 7 64-bit. He's down to trying for XP compatible mode.

[Altera_Forum]

well Windows 7 is not yet [officially] supported. OP did mention Vista-64 which is supported.

[Altera_Forum]

I'm using XP 64 bit version of Quartus, never had a problem with the tools or blaster. 

 I think Win 7 is supported at 10.0 release. I have 32 bit win 7 on another machine and quartus runs fine on it but I havent tried a blaster with it.

[Altera_Forum]

Here's something that could be an absolute no go. I have an older machine with AMD Athlon 2100 running on SiS® 735 chipset (MoBo by ECS K7S5A Pro rev.5). Win XP pro SP3. 1GB DDR ram, 80G HDD. Quartus 10 would not install on it. Tried many times with different configurations - failed at about 5-10%. Earlier version goes fine. Cannot figure out why...