Feel the power of.. GEOS!

[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 :-)

[_yak_]

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.

[T3000]

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...

[zombi]

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.

[justthatgood]

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.

[justthatgood]

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.

[Louis Dias]

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.

[SamuraiCrow]

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.

[recidivist]

 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?   :-?

[motrucker]

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.