USB Blaster driver for Max+plus II

[Altera_Forum]

I am using MAX+PLUS II trying to program EPM7128STC100-15. I have a USB Blaster download cable. I can not install the driver. The instruction on Altera website does not apply because it's for Quartus software. Can I use USB blaster with Max+plus software? If yes, how do I install the driver? Thanks.

[FvM]

Hi,
as mentioned above, it's unlikely that you can use MasterBlaster over USB with recent Windows versions because there's no driver for it. Use UART.

[Eagle_Savy]

Hi Gents,

Thanks a million for helping me along with this.

So, the advice from you would be to use this newly purchased Blaster with an old PC running WIN2K or WINXP the latest, or would there be another possibility?

@FvM : reading through the materials you kindly attached the link to in your previous response about the USB2LPT Conversion, I did not see any of the Altera listed in amongst the "Chip Programmers" tested. Would this be something I can consider using?

KR

Savvy_Eagle

[FvM]

Hi,
I didn't yet test the tu-chemnitz USB2LPT solution. But according to reports it does proper LPT port register virtualization and thus should work. The driver software is still maintained and supports Windows 11. Problem is however that MAX+plus II and also Quartus ByteBlaster don't have 64-Bit kernel drivers. You need to run a 32-Bit OS to use MAX+plus II or Quartus with ByteBlaster. According to above posted link, this can be also a virtual machine on VirtualBox.