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From: ohara@brahms.amd.com (Bob O'Hara)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ever seen a two-inch cursor before?
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Date: 20 Dec 90 20:38:57 GMT
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In article <276fc5e0.edd@uop.uop.edu> billj@uop.edu (Bill Jackson) writes:
>recently i downloaded the windows 3.0 drivers from the paradise bbs.
>unfortunately, they don't work!  i install the 640x480x256 driver
>exactly as the included instructions suggest, and all i get is a
>massive, two-inch cursor, three colors (off-yellow, red, and black) and
>"pixels" that are about 5mm square!!  please help since i can't afford
>another long-distance phone call....
>
>i have a paradise vga 16+ video card w/ 256k memory.
>
>
>ackthpt!
>
>bill jackson
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Bill,
	A little math will show that you don't have enough memory to run your
card in 640x480x256 mode.  That requires just a little more than 307k bytes.
Your only other option until you install more memory is to run in either
640x480x16 (~154k) or 800x600x16 (~240k).

	I made this same mistake myself when I first obtained the drivers
which is why I'm so familiar with it.

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