I have an AT&T VDC600 VGA card in a 386 system and I can't get it to display colors properly. The card has a bank of five DIP switches, with no information on what any of them do, though I have figured that the first switch must be a mono/color switch, for my monitor displays "Out of Sync" when that one is switched Off.
The rest of them seem to have no effect whatsoever. Any games I try to load on the system that require VGA will load properly...with the exception that all the colors are wrong. Quest for Glory II, for example, is supposed to use VGA to display 16-colors, but I get four: brown, red, yellow, and blue. Lords of the Realm suffers from similar issues, only it favors magenta instead of it's normal colors. It seems that the card is communicating that it can handle VGA...then doesn't.
I don't think it is my CRT monitor, I have used it for months on a Windows 2000 machine with no issues at all, including playing the same games I'm having issues with on the 386 system.
To stop the rambling: My issue is that I can find no information on the VDC600 card at all, save for that it is really a Paradise VGA card, which is obvious as it has a large Paradise VGA chip on it. If I knew what the DIP switches did, I might be closer to figuring this out.
The rest of them seem to have no effect whatsoever. Any games I try to load on the system that require VGA will load properly...with the exception that all the colors are wrong. Quest for Glory II, for example, is supposed to use VGA to display 16-colors, but I get four: brown, red, yellow, and blue. Lords of the Realm suffers from similar issues, only it favors magenta instead of it's normal colors. It seems that the card is communicating that it can handle VGA...then doesn't.
I don't think it is my CRT monitor, I have used it for months on a Windows 2000 machine with no issues at all, including playing the same games I'm having issues with on the 386 system.
To stop the rambling: My issue is that I can find no information on the VDC600 card at all, save for that it is really a Paradise VGA card, which is obvious as it has a large Paradise VGA chip on it. If I knew what the DIP switches did, I might be closer to figuring this out.