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Contents

How To Use This Index

Instructions

Overview

What & How

Adding Drivers To Your System

Moving Drivers to Your Hard Disk

Moving Drivers to a Network

Adding a Driver Not Included in this Package

Installing Drivers

Selecting a Resolution

Switching Resolutions

Adding Your Current Resolution to the Paradise List

Adding a Paradise Driver After Installation

Removing Resolutions

Removing a Resolution from the Pick List


Instructions

Point to the underlined topic you want to view and click the mouse button. To use the keyboard, press Tab to move the highlight to the underlined topic you want to view, and then press Enter.

Words that appear in green type within sentences are jump words. Click on a jump word to get more information on that topic.

Note: When using a 32K color driver jump words will not appear green. Windows does not currently support 32K color in Help text designations.


What & How

The device drivers included on the Paradise Drivers Disk for Windows have been built specifically to work with Paradise Windows Acceleration technology. They support high resolution graphics, up to 32,000+ colors, hardware BITBLT,a hardware cursor and Windows Multimedia transparency requirements in all Windows compatible software programs.

Installing Paradise drivers for Windows is a two step process. First, the drivers you choose must be transferred to your hard disk and uncompressed. Then just choose the resolution you want to use and re-start Windows.

After installation, the Paradise setup program icon will appear in the Windows Main program group. To easily switch between resolutions, add another driver or remove drivers just double click on the Paradise icon.

You can exit this installation at any time by choosing Close from the System menu.


Moving Drivers to Your Hard Disk

To move drivers to your hard disk:

*	Double click on the drive letter where the Paradise Drivers for Windows disk is located. (Normally this is A:, but it could also be a drive on a network) A list of drivers will appear.

*	Click on the driver(s) you want transferred to your hard disk. Some drivers come in non-gamma corrected versions, and in both 512k and 1MB memory versions. Check your hardware documentation for the memory configuration of your board or system.

*	Note: The number of colors supported affects the speed of a driver. If there are times when speed is more important to the work you are doing than the number of colors supported you may want to install more than one version of a driver and switch between them. For example, if you work in 800X600 resolution you may want to install the 16, 256 and 32K versions of the 800X600 resolution now so you can switch between them later.

*	Click the Add Drivers button.After each driver is installed a message window will appear.

*	Click OK to continue installing drivers.


Moving Drivers to a Network

Installing the Paradise Drivers for Windows disk on a network server saves space by making one copy of all drivers available to multiple users.

Each user runs the setup program to select their individual video modes. The Paradise program icon will then appear in each user's Main group window.

To move drivers to a network:

Copy the entire Paradise Drivers Disk for Windows to a network directory. Driver files will not be uncompressed until they are selected during the setup program.


Adding a Driver Not Included in this Package

Drivers not supplied in this package can be added to the Paradise setup program pick list for easy swapping from within Windows.

To add other drivers to the pick list:

*	From the DOS prompt use the Windows Setup program to install additional drivers to your Windows system. (See your Windows 3.X manual for further information).

*	Start Windows

*	Double click the Paradise icon to start the Paradise setup program.

*	Choose Add Video Driver from the Setup menu.* The new driver will now appear in the driver pick list.

*	Choose Close from the System menu to exit the setup program.


Selecting a Resolution

After installing your Paradise drivers in the Add Video Drivers window the Video Driver Setup window will appear. To select a resolution from the drivers you have installed:

*	Choose a resolution by clicking on it once. The resolution will be highlighted.

*	Click the Restart Windows or Exit to DOS button.


Switching Resolutions

Changing resolutions is fast and easy with the Paradise setup program. To switch resolutions:

*	Double click the Paradise setup program icon.

*	Select the resolution you want to use.

*	Click the Restart Windows button. Windows will restart at the new resolution.

*	Note: If you choose the same resolution that is already being used the Restart Windows and Exit to DOS buttons will be grayed out. It doesn't make sense to switch to a resolution that is already running!


Adding Your Current Resolution to the Paradise List

If you are using Windows with another driver, and want to continue having quick access to that driver, you can add it to the Paradise pick list. To add an existing Windows video mode to the paradise pick list:

*	Double click the Paradise setup program icon.

*	Choose Add Current Video Mode from the Setup menu.

*	The current video mode driver will appear in the pick list. For example, Paradise drivers appear as "800X600 16 color", while the generic Windows driver will appear as "VGA".

*	To use the old driver just select it and click the Restart Windows button.


Adding a Paradise Driver After Installation

To add a new paradise driver to your system from the Paradise Drivers Disk for Windows:

*	Double click the Paradise setup program icon.

*	Choose Add Video Driver. The Add Video Drivers window will appear.

*	Double click on the drive letter where the Paradise drivers are located. (Either from a floppy drive, such as A:, or a drive on a network) A list of drivers will appear.

*	Click on the driver(s) you want transferred to your hard disk.

*	Click OK after installation is complete. The Video Driver Setup window will appear.

*	To use the new driver click on it and then click the Restart Windows or Exit to DOS button.

*	Note: If you are adding a different version of a driver/resolution that already exists on your system a message window will ask you to verify that you want to overwrite the existing driver.


Removing a Resolution from the Pick List

*	Resolutions can be removed from your Video Driver Setup pick list. Removing a resolution from this pick list does not delete the driver from your hard disk or file server. To remove a resolution from the pick list:

*	Double click the Paradise setup program icon.

*	Select the resolution to be removed.

*	Choose Remove Selected Video Mode from the Setup menu.


Glossary of Terms

Exit to DOS

Restart Windows

grayed out

Paradise setup program icon

pick list

uncompressed

non-gamma corrected

Windows Acceleration


This button closes all Windows programs and then exits Windows.  You will be left at the DOS prompt and will have to restart Windows before video changes will take affect.


Restart Windows automatically closes all files, exits Windows, and restarts Windows using the new resolution you have selected.


When buttons or menu items are gray instead of the normal black text that function is not available.


An icon is a small "picture" that represents a program or function.  The Paradise driver setup program icon is a picture of two birds (from paradise!) When you double click on this icon the setup program starts.


A scrolling box that allows you to select from a list of items.


The files on original on disks are compressed to reduce their size.  They must be "uncompressed" before they can be used.


Paradise drivers are color (gamma) corrected for the best possible display on a wide range of monitors. Some applications or pictures may have already been color corrected. If the colors appear "washed out" after installing your Paradise drivers switching to the non-gamma corrected version of the driver may help.


Paradise Accelerator for Windows provides up to  15 times faster super VGA Windows performance than standard VGA by taking over Windows BITBLT and cursor display functions.