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From: ambush@kk4fs.UUCP (Ambush Bug)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Windows, Paradise 1024 (512K) and an XT clone.
Message-ID: <80yqT2w163w@kk4fs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 07:42:54 GMT
Organization: KK4FS - Free Speech Forum, +1 615 283 0864 for BBS
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I'd like to throw this out at anyone who cares, before I spend money to call 
Microsoft or Paradise to scream at them...
sooo...
I've got a Sanyo MBC-880 (PC/XT clone, not one of the little silver rigs) 
with a Paradise 1024 Super VGA card w/512K (allegedly 100% register level 
compatible with VGA) and an extrememly cranky copy of Windows 3.0.
Not having a 3.5" drive, I copied the files to 5 1/4" disks, and tried to 
install it.
To make a long story longet, the only video drivers I can get to work are 
the CGA (barf!) Hercules (almost tolerable) that came with Windows, and 
Paradise's 640x480x256 SVGA driver. Every other driver (EGA, VGA, and the 
other 2 Paradise drivers) lock up the machine (when installing it from 
scratch, it locks up on disk 2, right after it installs the VGALOGO.LGO 
file.)
 
What am I doing wrong?
Why is Windows installation routine so much worse than Apple's System 
installation? Why can't I GET ANYTHING TO WORK!?!?

Oh yes, Paradise's VGA1024 utility will also lock up the machine if I tell 
it to put it into EGA mode.

If you can't answer this, you can still benefit from this post...
does anyone want to buy a slightly used, not very Windows compatible PC/XT 
clone so that I can buy a Macintosh SE/30?

thanks!
Erik Stiegler...