[comp.windows.ms] 256 colours on Paradise? SVGA

barry@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Lay) (05/30/91)

I am trying to get 256 colours out of my Commodore PC60-III which I believe has
a 512k Paradise SVGA on board.  I have played around with Graphics Workshop,
and the best driver of the set that comes with it appears to be the PARADELL
driver, which announces itself as a Paradise driver.  The VGA ROM contains
the string "003056-018COPYRIGHT WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION."  No mention of
Paradise in the first several k.  My problem is that the Paradise 640x480x256
driver on the SDL disk does not work.  It creates a mad perfusion of colour
which appears as if the driver is totally confused about the addressing of the
graphics, as I can make out some of the screen (for example, the mouse cursor
takes up about three-quarters of the screen and is light red).  GWS with 
PARADELL works fine with the pictures that I had.  

Unfortunately the drivers that came with the computer are for Windows 2.  I
have no intention of running Windows in standard mode or below just to get
this to work.

Any ideas?  Anybody able to say for certain what is in this beast? 

Thanks,
Barry