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Re:GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the bu... by selcuka on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:57PM (#50348261)
GEOS comes with its own ROM and bypasses the Commodore 64 "Kernal". This one is a GUI that runs on existing ROM.
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Re:GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the bu... by jakedata on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:51AM (#50351966)
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.
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