I’ve just built and successfully used this kit. It works perfectly…
BUT it completely trashes the most important piece of software on my computer - VirtualAcorn’s VirtualRPC-SE (a RISC OS emulator). VirtualRPC runs as a DirectX application just the same as many games so it runs its emulator and writes its screen output either to a window or full screen thus providing a full-featured RISC OS operating system running on top of Windows XP. It works perfectly and does not interfere with any other software and no other software interferes with it - except the K8055 DLL!
This is not just a minor issue. As soon as the K8055 DLL runs RISC OS crashes and cannot be restarted until Windows has been rebooted.
This makes it absolutely impossible for me to implement my project of monitoring the house temperatures and power consumption continuously, because I use VirtualRPC all day, every day 24/7. The whole purpose of the K8055 was to avoid me having to take manual readings and to take readings throughout the day and night.
So, what can be done about this?
Has anyone else had clashes with other software?
Mike
Looking through this forum it looks like the DLL has a compatibility issue with DirectX. I have seen some other ppl with a similiar problem where a DX app crashes while running the K8055 driver. This is something that the ppl @ velleman will have to look into.