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First post, by muon

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I've recently came into possession of an old EGA card which appears to be a Paradise EGA card (PEGA2 chipset) or clone.

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I was looking for information about card to set properly (jumper P1 and 5-levers) but I didn't know nothing.

Can someone help? Thanks in advanced

Reply 1 of 17, by Shagittarius

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It appears the jumper is configured for autoswitching in your photo, so according to my manual all the switches should be set to on.

The only thing those switches control is manual settings for the monitor used for multiple monitor setups. You should just close all the Dip switches and keep the jumper the way you have it set and you should be fine.

Reply 2 of 17, by muon

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-07-23, 18:20:

It appears the jumper is configured for autoswitching in your photo, so according to my manual all the switches should be set to on.

The only thing those switches control is manual settings for the monitor used for multiple monitor setups. You should just close all the Dip switches and keep the jumper the way you have it set and you should be fine.

Hi Shagittarius !!

Thanks for the info. Could you take a picture from that page to see the differents options (monomonitor/multiple monitors=?

Thanks in advance

Reply 3 of 17, by muon

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In the picture , ¿4, is it close or open?

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muon

Reply 4 of 17, by Shagittarius

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muon wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:25:
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In the picture , ¿4, is it close or open?

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muon

4 is open in your picture. they should all be 'Down'. I can't take a picture right now so the manual scan will have to wait until later.

Reply 5 of 17, by Horun

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:59:

4 is open in your picture. they should all be 'Down'. I can't take a picture right now so the manual scan will have to wait until later.

Please do as I also have one and all are "up" or "on" on my card but that should be same as what you say depending how the switch is oriented ? Thanks !

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Reply 6 of 17, by Shagittarius

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Here is the relevant 4 pages for the non-auto config settings, it doesn't have a picture for auto-config but just says if the auto-config jumper is enabled, close all the dip-switches to turn them on.

EDIT: Sorry, this is not the same card I should have realized. My card is the PEGA1A. Anyways attached is the relevant section for the PEGA1A board.

Reply 7 of 17, by maxtherabbit

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-07-24, 15:08:

Here is the relevant 4 pages for the non-auto config settings, it doesn't have a picture for auto-config but just says if the auto-config jumper is enabled, close all the dip-switches to turn them on.

EDIT: Sorry, this is not the same card I should have realized. My card is the PEGA1A. Anyways attached is the relevant section for the PEGA1A board.

do you have the rest of the manual by chance?

Reply 8 of 17, by Shagittarius

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I do, I will try to scan the whole manual cover to cover this weekend and post it here.

Reply 9 of 17, by maxtherabbit

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-07-24, 15:54:

I do, I will try to scan the whole manual cover to cover this weekend and post it here.

that's amazing thank you

Reply 11 of 17, by Shagittarius

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Sorry guys, got busy, will try to remember to get to this this weekend again.

Reply 13 of 17, by maxtherabbit

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Yes!

Reply 14 of 17, by Horun

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-08-01, 18:12:

Here ya go, it's not perfect but is all legible.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehpi6545rthqd6x/Par … Manual.pdf?dl=0

Great and Thank you ! My card is the WD AutoSwitch EGA 480 (256k PEGA2) and having the manual is so much better. The switch settings are same as my crappy little text sheet. One thing I found interesting is my card has a silkscreened EEPROM (not a UV EPROM like in pictures at vgamuseum.info. The print on it says: PARADISE 22030-C1201-C400, 1289 31. The only other picture of PEGA with silkscreened ROM is at VCFed but it is a PEGA1 based.

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 15 of 17, by Jinxter

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-08-01, 18:12:

Here ya go, it's not perfect but is all legible.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehpi6545rthqd6x/Par … Manual.pdf?dl=0

Link is not working. Could you please fix?

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Reply 16 of 17, by Shagittarius

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Jinxter wrote on 2022-02-09, 19:15:
Shagittarius wrote on 2020-08-01, 18:12:

Here ya go, it's not perfect but is all legible.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehpi6545rthqd6x/Par … Manual.pdf?dl=0

Link is not working. Could you please fix?

Sorry try here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wi7u23uvyqz127i/Par … Manual.pdf?dl=0

Reply 17 of 17, by Jinxter

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Shagittarius wrote on 2022-02-09, 20:53:

Thank you.

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