Re: Berkley Software

[Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>]

Wayne Stewart wrote:

> Stephen Shaw wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what happened to a program/OS(?) called GEOS/Geoworks(?) from
> > Berkley Software and any opinions on it?

The company is still in existence. They make software for handhelds - cell phones
etc.
Do a web search for GEOS or Geoworks. You will find a number of web pages. The PC
version was turned over to a company called New Desk which had an Internet Suite
that worked on a 286. However, that company is currently having trouble keeping
afloat.

I understand that the Commodore version was sold off to yet another company.

The ][ version is unsupported and is in limbo.

>
>
> I don't know what happened to to the company but I tries using the program 3 or 4
> years ago.
> I only used it a couple of times as I found the copy protection scheme extremely
> annoying.
> It was installable on a hard drive but it'd refuse to start unless you put the
> program floppy in a
> disk drive.
>
>     Wayne

You must have had an earlier version. I have a version that came on 3.5" disk, and
knows about the //c+ and the IIgs, and it runs just fine from the hard disk.

Roy