Feel the power of.. GEOS!

[redrumloa]

OSNews Geos article

Pretty nice!!

[weirdami]

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.

[B00tDisk]

redrumloa wrote:
OSNews Geos article

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.

[Jiffy]

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...

[zombi]

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.

[coldfish]

zombi wrote:
...GEOS should have been distrubuted as bundle with 1541...

'twas, here in Aus.  

GEOS was good.

[LoadWB]

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!

[redrumloa]

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.

[Argo]

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.

[sdyates]

Me too -- GEOS was amazing!

It lasted me untilt he Amiga 500 and I never looked back!

[Eugenia]

Tomorrow we will feature an article on AROS at osnews.com

[recidivist]

 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 ?

[Louis Dias]

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!

[recidivist]

 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.

[LoadWB]

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 :-)