• Re: Where to download PC GEOS from?

    From Myrddin R Emrys@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 17 00:18:21 2022
    Wow.. It has been 2 epochs in iNet time since there's been activity here. Regardless, back in the day I'd used early PC GEOS ..introduced to it since AOL ran on it and some PC's actually came with it installed.. Later licensed it, went to Pro, then even had gone to Breadbox Ensemble though seems like it wasn't quite the same ..
    I do think it'd gotten up to like 32k colors there at the end and had some nice features for it's day.

    However, I don't know anything about the currently available code that you have to compile and just wonder if someone's still out there who either knows where a clean install of the last real version could be obtained or if my best bet is to start
    digging around and try to find one of the old IDE drives that I've stowed away that may still have it on there. ..might have to dig up some sort of external adapter to even connect the thing to look at it.

    Anyway, thought I'd show a little interest in this old piece of software. At one time I knew people doing full color newsletters on it and all manner of things in offices and even a local university. Of course, like I said at the start.. that was a
    couple of digital epochs back too.

    *Cheers.!

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  • From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to Myrddin R Emrys on Thu Jul 14 16:50:16 2022
    Greetings.

    On 17/06/2022 09.18, Myrddin R Emrys wrote:
    However, I don't know anything about the currently available code
    that you have to compile and just wonder if someone's still out there
    who either knows where a clean install of the last real version could
    be obtained or if my best bet is to start digging around and try to
    find one of the old IDE drives that I've stowed away that may still
    have it on there. ..might have to dig up some sort of external
    adapter to even connect the thing to look at it.


    GEOS can surely be considered abandonware by now. I did some web
    searches just now for terms like "download geos" and "download pc geos"
    and found a number of sites purporting to offer it for download. For
    example, there's <https://winworldpc.com/product/geos/> which has disk
    images for GeoWorks Pro 1.2 and GeoWorks Ensemble 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and
    2.0, as well as the manual for GeoWorks Pro 1.2.

    Regards,
    Tristan

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  • From Myrddin R Emrys@21:1/5 to Tristan Miller on Thu Jul 14 18:10:39 2022
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 9:50:18 AM UTC-5, Tristan Miller wrote:
    Greetings.
    On 17/06/2022 09.18, Myrddin R Emrys wrote:
    However, I don't know anything about the currently available code
    that you have to compile and just wonder if someone's still out there
    who either knows where a clean install of the last real version could
    be obtained or if my best bet is to start digging around and try to
    find one of the old IDE drives that I've stowed away that may still
    have it on there. ..might have to dig up some sort of external
    adapter to even connect the thing to look at it.
    GEOS can surely be considered abandonware by now. I did some web
    searches just now for terms like "download geos" and "download pc geos"
    and found a number of sites purporting to offer it for download. For example, there's <https://winworldpc.com/product/geos/> which has disk images for GeoWorks Pro 1.2 and GeoWorks Ensemble 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and
    2.0, as well as the manual for GeoWorks Pro 1.2.

    Regards,
    Tristan

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    Thank you for the direction to start towards! I even found the newer incarnations there on the same site. The next task I think will be to get an appropriate DOS situation running that I can install into.
    Back in it's day this thing could actually crank out some productivity that was useful for some real world tasks that it got a lot of use out of.. until it was kicked to the curb as Windows took over and "Full-scale Solutions" came with a much larger
    pricetag. How times change, and change again.
    cool beans!

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  • From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to Myrddin R Emrys on Fri Jul 15 11:51:55 2022
    Dear Myrddin,

    On 15/07/2022 03.10, Myrddin R Emrys wrote:
    Thank you for the direction to start towards! I even found the newer incarnations there on the same site. The next task I think will be to
    get an appropriate DOS situation running that I can install into.
    Back in it's day this thing could actually crank out some
    productivity that was useful for some real world tasks that it got a
    lot of use out of.. until it was kicked to the curb as Windows took
    over and "Full-scale Solutions" came with a much larger pricetag.
    How times change, and change again.


    If you aren't going to install it on a dedicated machine, I'd suggest
    trying DOSBox first, as this will allow you to very easily tweak the environment to your liking. If that doesn't work, you could try using VirtualBox or the like to set up a virtual machine running FreeDOS.
    Either way, let us know how it goes!

    Regards,
    Tristan

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