Re:GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the bu...
by jakedata on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:51AM
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I used GEOS unironically in high school. I had two 1541 floppy drives which really cut down on the disk swapping and I was able to do productive work. Ultimately I used my employee discount to upgrade to a Tandy 1000 TL that would boot into DeskMate from ROM and took it to college, leaving the C64 in the dust. I still have all the stuff but not the time.
Re:GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the bu...
by ButlerianJihad on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:06AM
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Limitations:
GUI64 does not use the VIC-II’s bitmap graphics mode, but operates in text mode. GUI64 is therefore character set–based... Strictly speaking, GUI64 should therefore be considered not a GUI, but a TUI (Text User Interface).
Currently, there are no applications for GUI64.
So, it is a file manager, inferior to an orthodox file manager. It supports the mouse, and it can launch BASIC. If you like your KERNAL ROM, you can keep your KERNAL ROM.
I never ran GEOS. I saw it advertised, and it seemed fascinating, but perhaps "too early". I had become fluent in BASIC and proficient at the command line. For me, time spent on the Commodore 64 was programming, or in a game or application, rather than pushing files/objects around on the desktop.
I never ran GEOS. I saw it advertised, and it seemed fascinating, but perhaps "too early". I had become fluent in BASIC and proficient at the command line. For me, time spent on the Commodore 64 was programming, or in a game or application, rather than pushing files/objects around on the desktop.
("NC" creative commons)
Open Source and available on github. The old web site seems to be down which is a bit of a shame.