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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: redrumloa on September 12, 2006, 04:10:08 AM
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OSNews Geos article (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15223&page=1)
Pretty nice!!
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I didn't know it was meant to be an airline seatback computer dealy thing. That's as far as I got in reading it :-) but will I find out that it never made it into airplanes? I didn't see computers in seatbacks on airlines back then.
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redrumloa wrote:
OSNews Geos article (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15223&page=1)
Pretty nice!!
Man I loved me some GEOS.
Got myself a 1531 mouse (was that the C= mouse for 8-bits?) and a copy of GEOS 1.0...good times, good times.
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Got myself a 1531 mouse (was that the C= mouse for 8-bits?)
You mean the 1351 mouse. The 1531 was (one of the) datasettes (1530/1531/C2N). The 1351 was a 'real' mouse, in contrast with the 1350, which was really a joystick, disguised as a mouse...
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I have read articles but I have never seen a copy of GEOS when I were using C64. GEOS should have been distrubuted as bundle with 1541 or MPS 1250.
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zombi wrote:
...GEOS should have been distrubuted as bundle with 1541...
'twas, here in Aus.
GEOS was good.
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Most of the "C" models (64C, 1541C, and the 1541-II) were bundled with GEOS 1.x. GEOS 2.0 was a power-user purchase. IIRC, there was a 64C and disk drive (either the 41-II or 41C) sold in a bundle with GEOS. And of course, let's not forget all of the copies of QLink included as well!
Looking through the article... ahhh GeoCalc. I was just commenting on some of the things I did in that program way long time ago. I can't wait until I buy my new house so I can set up my computer room again.
Oh, and I remember the "Sky Tray." Or at least I remember reading about it, maybe it was in COMPUTE!. hehehe back to bed, darnit!
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As other have mentioned, later C= 8bit products were bundled with Geos. A few years back I have a stack of NOS 1541-IIs that all had Geos 1.3 bundled.
Back in the day I remember being very impressed by Geos, but never got it it. Geos was like $70! I could buy 2-3 games with that money! Sigh.. I was a poor kid who had to earn his own $$ for computer stuff. When I did make a little $$, I usually bought games. The exception being saving up money for 8 month to upgrade from C64 to C128.
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Yup, used it through high school for homework. GEOWrite was so much better than Bank Street Write we had at school. It also got me through my first year of college til I got my A500.
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Me too -- GEOS was amazing!
It lasted me untilt he Amiga 500 and I never looked back!
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Tomorrow we will feature an article on AROS at osnews.com
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For real C= diehards,there is/were? accelerator cpu which at 20mhz make GEOS a pleasure to use. Of course the SuperCPU cost a couple hundred dollars,and like many Amiga booster took over the computing but uses the C64/C128 for I/O and display.
NO,you can't have mine! Got one of the first production units back when CMD introduced them. Click Here Software I think is the current builder/supplier.
Brother Corporation also made and sold the GEOBook which was
pitched at those needing just those business and home management tasks GEOS was designed to do. The product was a little too expensive in comparison to general purpose laptops and a little too late.Introduced a couple years earlier it would probably be seen as the logical and more useful successor to the Radio Shack Model 100/200 mini-laptops.
I wonder just how fast today's programs would run if they were written in machine code instead of C++ and Visual Basic ?
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Gee,
The 6502 was in the C64 and the NES
The 65816 ("super" cpu) was in the accelerator and the SNES.
The Gamecube uses a PPC cpu like the Amiga accererators...
I say we carry on the tradition and port AROS and OS4 to the Wii!
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Now I know what a Wii is!
And it looks to have great possibilities given that new peripherals have a USB connection. Since I think even video addon now connect via USB 2.0 all the computing device needs is a processor and a USB translator with everything else on the USB buss:keyboard,mouse,magic wand,remote,video,storage...can the buss handle all that traffic?
I can see this thing getting "personality" disc or cards to emulate darn near any of the older machines .
The only thing I wonder about is it maintaing an internet coonnection even when "off";not sure I like that as it sounds kind of 1984ish.
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lou_dias wrote:
The 6502 was in the C64 and the NES
Actually, the NES used a 6502-compatible CPU produced by Ricoh, RP2A03G running around 1.75-ish MHz. It lacks decimal mode and includes five channel audio.
Even so, programmers still follow 6502-fu on the hardware.
Just nit-picking :-)
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I just tried GEOS on CCS64 and it's purely awesome, so much functionality in so small machine. It's a shame I didn't have a disk drive when I had a C64.
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now there's a blast from the past. Geos. Had all my comic books entered into GEOdata(?) Very configurable database program. Gad, I still have a few or more boxes of C=64 equipment including the jiffy dos chips, CMD 1 meg static ram expansion and GEOS programs stuffed in the closet...
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The 6502 was in the C64 and the NES
The 65816 ("super" cpu) was in the accelerator and the SNES.
The Gamecube uses a PPC cpu like the Amiga accererators...
I say we carry on the tradition and port AROS and OS4 to the Wii!
Hey Amiga is not a successor to Commodore 8-bit.
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Ah I remember that GEOS thing. I had a box with that stuff in it when I was moving around my C64 stuff. I guess a lot of people used it for printing crap, because it was suppose to be good with printers are something.
I don't know. Something having to do with postscript or something.
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That's a 65c816....
When I think about 65816 I think about my Apple IIGs.
Ah the days of the SNES emulation scene, and everyone and their brother and sister were hard cracking code and saying how 68k was too easy. :roll: The simpler days.
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zombi wrote:
Hey Amiga is not a successor to Commodore 8-bit.
Well so Commodore went all Sega Genesis/Megadrive 68000 on us for a while...but they eventually got back on track.
Interesting how this article calls the 6502 a Risc chip, lol. Also, no mention of my GEOS 128! Yes. I had it and it blew away the C64 version. Ofcourse the 128 shipped with Jane, and that was good enough for most people.
@recidivist
The remote(wand, Wii-mote) uses Bluetooth (wireless) send input to the Wii. The Wii also has 802.11g built-in as well. It offers 1024x768 or direct pointing resolution when you place the sensor bar infront of your screen and calibrate it. So you've got a front SD card slot and 2 usb 2.0 ports in the back. Quite a nifty device for ~$200US.
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I used GEOS 128 for many years. In order to get high-quality print on a dot-matrix printer you needed Perfect Print LQ from Creative Micro Designs but it would match geoLaser's print quality from geoWrite.
The things that got me about GEOS is that it didn't have a ROM-based kernal, it didn't have character mode support (outside of the geoBasic editor that came from Run magazine), it didn't have extensive raster interrupt support (for writing demo code and games), and it didn't support vector glyphs for outline fonts.
Needless to say, when I got my A1200 in 1993 and found out it has all of those features or better (except the character mode support since it isn't present on the Amiga chipset), I didn't mess with GEOS very much after that. The PC version of GEOS was good but not nearly as good as AmigaOS.
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There USED to be a nice IIGS website and the author was working on a web browser and some other goodies.But I brought it up one day to see a message that due to widespread pirating of his work and the apparent refusal of the IIGS users to send him a little shareware funding ,he just got fed up and deleted all his work to date including his development tools and tossed the books,so the ungrateful IIGS users could go xxxxxxxxx!:madashell:
That was really a shame.I think the IIGS had potential but like the C128 was a brief step/stop from the 6502 to the 68000. (yes, I have a stack of GSs).and a bunch of others.Picked up some pizza boz Macs last year for 50 cents each.Wonder how many million classic pre Windows machines lie beneath grass clippings and disposable diapers? :-?
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We still have Geos 128, 2.0 running here! With GeoPublish, GeoWrite Workshop, GeoCalc and GeoData. An HP 4 laser printer does the printing, and looks as good as any of the Amigas or Windoze machines! My grandchildren are the main users, but it's still very active.
Hey - anyone remember GeoTheo? I just found my old copy.