JamesD

Bravo, you found other people that misused the term firmware! That must mean you are correct! I can find hundreds of examples where people refer to assembling assembly language as compiling, but that doesn't mean that's correct either. Here is my linky: https://opencores.org/ The term firmware was coined around 1967 when FPGAs weren't even a twinkle in an engineer's eye, and even the wiki calls firmware software... not that wiki can't be wrong (as I sit here and wait for someone to change the Wiki to say it includes FPGA cores as firmware). FWIW, firmware was hard wired in core memory at the time the phrase was coined. Frankly, I wouldn't have said anything if you hadn't gone to the trouble of pointing out how you called it firmware and Mark called it a core. I think the poster that asked if he should update the firmware was talking about the ROM (he said he updated the core), so it's important to distinguish between the two to avoid confusion. If you say a core update is needed, it's clear you need to update the FPGA, and if firmware is the ROM for the 6502, things are still clear if you say the firmware needs an update. If you say update the firmware but it means either... then what are you updating exactly?

Firmware is software in ROM that has to be executed by some sort of CPU, an FPGA has no CPU

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I still have my original CoCo 1, but I sold my Amiga 2000 when I bought an Amiga 3000. I still have the A3000, and my parent's A500.

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Deleted... you meant the main topic

CoCoTalk is live at 12 Eastern every Saturday, so that's not the best time for CoCo fans

Looks like the "Rumor" was a leak. Civilization VI is up! Woo hoo!

Rumor has it that the next free Epic games will be (1 per week): Civilization VI Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Ark Survival Evolved

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tomb-raider-goty-bundle

https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-origins-and-odyssey-discovery-tours-are-free-for-everyone/

I ran into that the last time they gave me a coupon.

GTA 5

A new EPIC freebie is up, and they are unlocking a mystery game in about 9 1/2 hours

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/sanctuary-bundle

Free for a limited time (16 hours) https://www.humblebundle.com/store/ashes-of-the-singularity-escalation-free-game

"COLOR" is misspelled.

From the source code... it looks like someone else had the same issues I did with the HD6301 series microcontroller support.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/ashes-of-the-singularity-escalation-free-game

That's tempting. I liked Time Shift too.

We still had user group meetings in the late 80's where I lived at the time, but I think that died around the same time as the Amiga & Atari ST.

May the 4th be with you deals are live on several sites. Check GOG, Humble, Fanatical, Steam, etc... for the best deals.

UPlay (Ubisoft) has several free games at the moment, including Assassin's Creed II.