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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Paradise Plus and 2A monitor
Summary: Can't get through to their BBS
Keywords: paradise
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.211433.4601@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 90 21:14:33 GMT
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In article <3952@awdprime.UUCP> woan@iti.org (Ronald S. Woan Jr.) writes:
>akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>>[]drivers have been available from
>>Paradise for a very long time. The latest version(s) of their drivers
>>are available from their BBS (which is actually Western Digital's BBS)
>>Paradise 415-968-1834. I have an card that uses a Paradise chipset,
>>and I had two reasons for buying it. [one was]
>>it had windows 3.0 drivers available for it.
>I also have a Paradise chipset card now, as it was the cheapest that I
>could find when I bought it, but Paradise based cards have the severe
>defect of not being able to support 800x600 mode with 256 colors... If
>I remember correctly, the 2A is an 800x600 multisync, so I would
>recommend a Trident 8900 (or even older 8800) or Tseng Labs 4000
>chipset based card which also have Windows 3.0 drivers and are in the
>same price range these days.

I just received a message from someone who called the Western Digital
BBS, and found that unless you were a registered user, you could not
log in. So I tried, and did not get an answer. If WD/Paradise has
changed their policies, that would be a shame. Also, if anyone knows
what the status of their BBS is, I would be grateful for information.

kartik

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