--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_24265_1152528521_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On the menu, select Configure>H8 Options. The dialog pop-up allows you to set "value of tau". Start with 5:1 and see if the PAM8 code behaves better. If it does, try lower ratios until it breaks again and then go up one step. (I'm currently using 3:1 on my XP Pro platform -- 2:1 worked fine on a slower CPU running NT, so Microsoft "improved" things.) -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Glenn Roberts" I'm trying to get Dave Wallace's virtual H8 to work on my Windows (Media Center) computer. I'm using version 1.4. I've downloaded it to C:\H8 and have the necessary files and directories in place as described in the readme. i've replaced the dummy .ROM files with the ones off the sebhc web site. the emulator runs but it comes up showing "CPU Suspended", which I presume means it hit a HLT instruction (??). the buttons seem to react to key clicks so the GUI is working, but nothing is displayed on the LED's or the H19 screen. RESET doesn't solve the problem. anyone have any "lessons learned" in bringing this up? Are the .ROM files on the SEBHC web site known to work with it? If not my next step will be to build my own ROM files by digging out the H8 - Glenn Roberts --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_24265_1152528521_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

On the menu, select Configure>H8 Options. The dialog pop-up allows you to set "value of tau". Start with 5:1 and see if the PAM8 code behaves better. If it does, try lower ratios until it breaks again and then go up one step. (I'm currently using 3:1 on my XP Pro platform -- 2:1 worked fine on a slower CPU running NT, so Microsoft "improved" things.)

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From: "Glenn Roberts" <gfroberts@adelphia.net>

I'm trying to get Dave Wallace's virtual H8 to work on my Windows (Media Center) computer. I'm using version 1.4. I've downloaded it to C:\H8 and have the necessary files and directories in place as described in the readme. i've replaced the dummy .ROM files with the ones off the sebhc web site. the emulator runs but it comes up showing "CPU Suspended", which I presume means it hit a HLT instruction (??). the buttons seem to react to key clicks so the GUI is working, but nothing is displayed on the LED's or the H19 screen. RESET doesn't solve the problem.

anyone have any "lessons learned" in bringing this up? Are the .ROM files on the SEBHC web site known to work with it? If not my next step will be to build my own ROM files by digging out the H8

- Glenn Roberts

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