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Re: GEOS on a GS



magnusfalkirk wrote:
On May 4, 12:42 pm, Mike Maginnis <magin...@computist-project.net>
wrote:

On Sat, 3 May 2008 21:40:48 -0700 (PDT), Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com>
wrote:


On May 4, 12:10 am, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just wondering what people here think of GEOS and whether or not it is
worth messing with. I downloaded the images from Asimov, transferred
them to 5.25 disks and then set up a 3.5 on my real GS with GEOS. Am I
wasting my time or is it worth it?

GEOS is kind of interesting but I don't think it's really worth a
significant time investment on the Apple II.

Eric Shepherd
Owner
Syndicomm
http://www.syndicomm.com/

I'd have to agree with Sheppy.  Unfortunately, GEOS development didn't
really continue on the Apple II like it did for the Commodore.  A
shame really, because they did some neat stuff with GEOS on the
Commodore.

Mike Maginnis
magin...@computist-project.net

The Computist Projecthttp://computist-project.net


Thanks for all the input about GEOS. One thing I've already discovered
about it that is annoying is copying files from one disk to another.
Instead of being able to drag the file you want onto the disk you want
to move it to you have to go through a series of steps:

1. open disk you want to copy file from.
2. highlight file you want to copy by clicking on it.
3. click a second time on the file and drag it to the desktop.
4. open disk you want to move file to.
5. highlight file you want to move by clicking on it.
6. click a second time on the file and drag into the new disk.

Sounds like the design center was a single-drive system.  ;-)

-michael

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