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From: howard@kcl-cs.UUCP (JR Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: correct modes for Paradise extended VGA
Message-ID: <1948@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 15:49:12 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computing, Kings College London
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In article <55234@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v105mahs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>
>   I have a paradise video board with 512k of memory on my 386.  
>I can effectively use video mode (in hex) 5E for 640x400 in 256 
>colors, mode 5F for 640x480 in 256 colors, and mode 58 for 
>800x600 in 16 colors.  What I am wondering is if anyone knows 
>the mode numbers for better resolution, such as 1024x768 in 16 

The best source is 'ralf's interrupt list available from all good ftp sites -
it lists all know service interrupts and conseqeuently all know video modes
and cards - The Paradise VGA is a weird beast - one of the video service
routines available allows you to specify a resolution and colors ... it will
then try and produce the mode ... telling you if it succeeded or not.

And while I'm here ... A plea from all the 256K paradise users:

A few weeks ago some debate was going on about upgrading our cards from 16's to
512K Pros.  During this some bright spark sent out the missing device patches
on the 16 card with guesses of their type ... he also asked for someone to
compare them to their 512K Pro card ... did anyone do this ... NO.  If he
reposts them, can any of you 512K Pro users (hinting at nobody: v105mahs) fill
in the gaps?

This has been one mans quest for better colour use in Windows 3.0 ... 

JR