Hello! This week I tried to download your Alliance 3.2b. After several aborts I succeeded in receiving at least the common files. I am *very* disappointed, that the sources are no longer included. That is mainly because I extended the version 3.0 a lot to create programming files for the 6200 FPGA's from XILINX. You write that it is necessary now to sign an NDA. That will normally be no problem if that NDA is acceptable to me. At least should all my extensions to the Alliance system (including the sources) remain free for the world (except commercial use). For your information I'll include a mail which I sent to Alain Greiner end of november but never received any reponse: Since about three months I am extending the version 3.0 of your ALLIANCE project. The goal for this extension is to create programming files for the XILINX 6200 FPGA series and possibly also the brand new ATMEL AT40K FPGA's which are not so expensive. I do this for a project of my own to recreate the good old ZUSE Z23 (the first fully transistorized Computer) on one chip. Because of my *very* small budget I cannot buy the expensive programming software from XILINX but I have some spare time so I decided to program the necessary things myself. Then, by accident, I found your very good ALLIANCE software on one of my Linux CD's which turned out to be a good basis to do this. Until today I've finished an EDIF version 1 MBK module to be able to read in the schematic which I had already finished with my very old OrCAD-III system with help of the XILINX XC4000 library. Then I finished a converter to make an ALLIANCE compatible behavioral VHDL file out of the MBK net list (XILINX XC4000 specific). After that I extended the ALLIGATOR (FPGA synthesis) to create an XC6200 optimized AL and XNF file. It was funny to understand source files with comments mixed in english, french, and portuguese (I am german). This is finished now and I am on the road to write a router for FPGA's because such a program is missing in the ALLIANCE series. A program to create an optimized binary data file with all the interconnections and internal multiplexer programming information's and timings of the XC6200 series is already finished. Today I searched for more information's about the ALLIANCE software in the Internet and found your announcement for ALLIANCE 3.2. Before I thought that Version 3.0 was the last version because it was dated 1995 and there was nothing newer on your ftp server. To not develop things which are already under development I am interested in information's about what has changed after 3.0 and what is planned in the near future. Also I would like to get the sources of the newest version so I can integrate my changes and bug fixes. If you're interested you can get all my extensions and new programs after they are finished. Regards, -- Bernd-Gunter Nitzler PS: You can answer in french or english, but for me it is much easier to write in english because my french writing is very bad. Bernd-Gunter Nitzler Bourdiguet 30700 Aigaliers Tel/Fax: 04.66.22.03.43 Mail: bernd-nitzler@wanadoo.fr www: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bernd-nitzler