Paradise VGA longshot

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
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Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: Paradise VGA longshot


> I know this is a longshot, but I'm looking for the settings of all five
> DIP switches on a Paradise VGA card from 1990.  It has two strings on
> the board, either of which could be the make/model:
>
> PWBA 4316 0134-000
> or
> PW800 VGA
>
> I'm assuming it's a paradise card, because the actual chip on it is from
> Western Digital Corp. (a WD90C11-LR) and Paradise used them nearly
> exclusively.
>
> The reason I'm asking is because I'm looking for an 8-bit ISA VGA card,
> and while this card is 16-bit, some of them could be DIP-switched to run
> in an 8-bit slot.
>
> There are five DIP switches on the backplate.  No, I am not going to
> plug it into my 5160 and power cycle it 32 times to go hunting for
> something that works :)
> -- 

http://docs.nojabrsk.ru/th99/v/txt/52485.txt

Does this help? Its the only 16 bit Paradise card listed in TH99.