Paradise
Paradise was a graphics chipset manufacturer for the IBM PC and its compatibles. Toshiba used a Paradise VGA chipset in its 1989/1990 range of laptops, including the T3100SX, T3200SX, T5100/100, T5100/200, as did NEC in its PowerMate laptop range and Compaq in its Portable 386.
Paradise were bought out by Western Digital around 1987 or early 1988.
Color/Mono Card
A PPC-2 chip was also produced, which added bi-directional capability to the parallel port interface.
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PEGA 1A
The PEGA 1A chipset was used on the Amstrad PC1640 motherboard to provide EGA, CGA, MDA, Hercules, and Plantronics COLORPLUS compatibility. |
PEGA 2A
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PVC 4
The PVC 4 chip from Paradise was a single-chip video controller which integrated a 6845 CRTC and other logic, greatly reducing chip count on CGA, Plantronics COLORPLUS, Hercules graphics, MDA and AT&T 6300 video implementations. A PVC 4A was also produced that added 132-column text mode. Both chips were housed in 100-pin PFP.
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PVGA 1A
This SVGA chipset from Paradise (also shared with Video7 as their VEGA chipset) was a multi-mode VGA video controller with hardware and BIOS level compatibility. This means it provided 100% IBM VGA, EGA, CGA, MDA and Hercules graphics compatibility. It was packaged in a 100-pin PLCC or PFP. It added a non-standard 800 x 600 x 16 mode, which was supported by the game Wonderland. This mode requires a 240 KB frame buffer, but you most likely need a card with 512 KB of video RAM to support this mode. |
PVGA 1B
This SVGA chipset from Paradise/Western Digital was similar to PVGA 1A, but added 1024 x 768 x 16 interlaced mode and 45 MHz dot clock support.
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PVGA Plus (WD90C90)
Launched: 1989?
Other pics: 1 |