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Re: GEOS...and a problem.

Subject: Re: GEOS...and a problem.
From: Cameron Kaiser <cdkaiser@delete.these.four.words.concentric.net>
Date: 1998/12/07
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

>You need to run it in monochrome.  GEOS for the Apple II
>uses monochrome double hires.  For this mode, you must
>switch to monochrome.
>GEOS for the Commodores are color.

GEOS is still upgraded and used frequently on the Commodore, though IMO it
crawls at 1MHz. Still, it's very functional on that platform.

I always thought it a shame that Apple GEOS never took off. It would have
been cool to get cross-platform apps running, which I think was Berkeley
Softworks' idea.

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