Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it?
Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my first taste of Windows.
Greetings.
On 30/08/2020 21.45, Erich B. wrote:
Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my >> first taste of Windows.
I never used it myself, though I found the magazine advertisements for
GEOS and its attendant applications quite memorable. Whoever came up
with them was a veritable marketing genius -- those ads were more
interesting to read than at least half of the articles in a typical COMPUTE!'s Gazette.
Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my first taste of Windows.
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:45:23 +1300, Erich B. wrote:
A friend got it "late" (1988?) and standalone as far as I remember. It
was my second taste of Windows. First was the Amiga a year earlier.
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On 30/08/2020 21:45, Erich B. wrote:
I surely remember it even if it wasn't bundled with my machine, which
wasn't a C64C (just regular C64).
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Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my first taste of Windows.
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On 01/09/2020 09:45, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
On 30/08/2020 21.45, Erich B. wrote:
Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my
first taste of Windows.
I never used it myself, though I found the magazine advertisements for
GEOS and its attendant applications quite memorable. Whoever came up
with them was a veritable marketing genius -- those ads were more
interesting to read than at least half of the articles in a typical
COMPUTE!'s Gazette.
And GEOS is a masterpiece of a product too. For example GeoPublish was
even reviewed as first class citizen among the well established DTP
packages of the time and praised for excellent quality for the price
Hello, and while some vendors may have put bundles together (anyone
old enough to remember Protecto Enterprises?),
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:45:23 +1300, Erich B. wrote:
A friend got it "late" (1988?) and standalone as far as I remember. It
was my second taste of Windows. First was the Amiga a year earlier.
GEOS was all black and white and gray but it was still cool for the time. I had
an Amiga 520 and I also had a Commodore 128d. It had the 64, 64c, 128 and ML(Machine Language) modes.
Hello, and while some vendors may have put bundles together (anyone old enough to remember Protecto Enterprises?), AFAIK GEOS was a
separately-sold product. I still have GEOS, DeskPack Plus, geoChart, geoFile and geoCalc for the C-64. Cost a few bucks but IMHO these
products were probably as close as you could get to "killer" apps on a
C-64,
alone home use for MS Office-like stuff. GEOS with its companion apps
did some great Macintosh-like things but oh so slowly if all you had was
one (not advisable) or two 1541 drives. You really needed a 1750 RAM expansion or the GEOS RAM cart to get things moving.
On Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:04:07 +1300, Erich B. wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:45:23 +1300, Erich B. wrote:
A friend got it "late" (1988?) and standalone as far as I remember. It
was my second taste of Windows. First was the Amiga a year earlier.
GEOS was all black and white and gray but it was still cool for the time. I had
an Amiga 520 and I also had a Commodore 128d. It had the 64, 64c, 128 and
ML(Machine Language) modes.
Here I only have emulators left. I am not able to find a working GEOS copy for the C64, but have one for the C128. And that is in color.
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 13:17:28 +0200, Silver Dream ! wrote:
On 01/09/2020 09:45, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
On 30/08/2020 21.45, Erich B. wrote:
Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my
first taste of Windows.
I never used it myself, though I found the magazine advertisements for
GEOS and its attendant applications quite memorable. Whoever came up
with them was a veritable marketing genius -- those ads were more
interesting to read than at least half of the articles in a typical
COMPUTE!'s Gazette.
And GEOS is a masterpiece of a product too. For example GeoPublish was
even reviewed as first class citizen among the well established DTP
packages of the time and praised for excellent quality for the price
Was also important it had support for various printers, like HP-PCL and
the LaserWriter from Apple, thus was used in the professional environment.
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:45:23 +1300, Erich B. wrote:
GEOS was all black and white and gray
GEOS was all black and white and gray but it was still cool for the time. I had
an Amiga 520 and I also had a Commodore 128d. It had the 64, 64c, 128 and ML(Machine Language) modes.
On 02/09/2020 13:11, J.B. Wood wrote:
I remember doing rather sizeable spreadsheets on GeoCalc, which threw
the other C64 spreadsheet applications (I don't remember the names - multiplan I think was one and the other don't remember - visicalc?) on
their knees, with quite reasonable performance.
given its limitations as a practical small business platform, let
True that. 1581 was already a good start as one could put/fit all needed things on one disk. But only adding RAM card made it fly.
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