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Re: GEOS

Oh yeah, GEOS was sold for the Apple II.  It was pretty heavily hyped
and reviewed back in the day with magazines like A+.  However, I don't
think it ever caught on.  While I think most people liked it,
Appleworks was king and worked better than the various GEOS apps that
were sold with it.

I picked up a copy in the late 90's while at a software outlet store in
the Bay Area (Herb's).  I didn't have a mouse and tried to run it and
it did not work very well.  I returned it for something else.

It looks like the software is available for free now:

http://www.breadbox.com/dldetails.asp?id=214&category=AppleGEOS&maincategory=AppleGEOS

I don't know what is included in the download, but worth a look for
anyone that is interested.

Donald


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).