Re:C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts
by jandrese on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:36PM
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GEOS felt kind of pointless to me, like early Windows but worse. It ate so much of the limited resources on the machine that you wouldn't be able to do much while it was still in memory.
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Re:C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts
by TheCycoONE on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:24PM
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The built in word processor had a lot of cool text effects. 13 year old me thought it was much more impressive than my mom's Paperclip. It has been very many years since I used it, but I recall multiple drives improved the experience, and these days I see it is popular to run GEOS with a ram expander.
Re:C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts
by xenomachina on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:55PM
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I used GEOS, and later GEOS 128, to do a lot of my homework in high school. GeoWrite was much better than an other word processor I'd used in the 64 or 128, and it used proportional fonts rather than the printer's built-in monospaced font. Printing took forever, though.