Re: Apple IIe GUI

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

thomas wrote:

> was GEOS ever popular with the A2 crowd? I didn't have the resources on my
> Laser128 to ever run it back then - can't find much info about it on the A2
> platform (compared to the commodore version)...Has anyone tried to transfer
> their GEOS disks to 800k versions? my attempt would not boot! would like to
> have it for my IIc+ and compare it with the early GS/OS...

I tried GEOS on a IIe hard drive but it had a copy protection scheme which
required the origional floppy to be in a drive before it would statup. Once it

verified that you had the disk you could remove it. That was annoying enough
that I erased it after a few hours. I tried several copies of GEOS but they
all
had the same copy protection. Probably one of the reasons it wasn't overly
popuplar. If you have a HD, you don't want to be shuffling and searching for
floppies. The origional disk was copy protected and you had to use the
installer
to put a copy on another disk or HD.

    Wayne