Re: GEOS

[The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:48:20 -0800, Payton Byrd wrote:

> Was GEOS ever sold for the Apple II?  Is it compatible with
> applications written for GEOS for the Commodore computers?  One amazing
> thing about GEOS 128 was it's ability to run almost all GEOS 64
> applications right from the native 128 version of GEOS, despite the
> drastically different hardware profile.  I'm just getting into GEOS
> programming and my understanding was that the kernel of GEOS is the
> kernel of GEOS is the kernel of GEOS and that applications should be
> portable.  I know GEOS for the Commodore +/4 is supposed to run most
> GEOS 64 applications as well, even though the only thing shared between
> a +/4 and a 64 is the 6502 roots of their different CPUs (the +/4 uses
> a 4510 CPU and the 64 uses the 6510 CPU).

	Check out http://www.callapple.org for info on the Apple// version of
GEOS. I haven't looked at the packages myself, but I think there is
something available...

				Later
				Mike