Booting GEOS - In 2008 - 25 years!

[james64468]

It amazing that Commodore is back. You can find their website by searching online.

[nopochoclos]

@james64468 ITs only a case labeled like Commodore, a nice proyect but is not a Commodore really, until they do a similar epic computer like C64 and best hardware like Commodore amiga, this is a hard work but ... its a first contact with this kind of computers, now are running linux is a simple PC, cant run directly AMIGA OS...

[james64468]

@nopochoclos I don't think they will be around long. I am not even going to be buying it. The strangest thing is look up Commodore International Corp. Something is wrong here fore sure. Linux is a failure on some levels. It slows down in time just like windows. I have seen how some of their staff has acted. their forum has not really that great. I could do better job. If I were going to make a commodore it would be all custom stuff.

[nopochoclos]

@james64468 The problem, only fanatics like us buy this kind of machines...i try to do the same in past years but i cant competite with big corps...

[james64468]

@nopochoclos Yeah I think I remember seeing a commodore at walmart for 75.00. I do know mos that whaver the correct term for what it called went bankrupt. It was closed by epa. The only way it would be possible is to buy mos techonology or start from scatch. would have to buy out amiga Commodore International and commodore usa. Amiga kits and few others. I think we talking about 1 billion plus dollars. To much money to invest.

[jsmythib]

I cant believe you got it to run lol..25 years is a long time for magnetic rust :) I remember geos...it was an impressive for its time.

[astrocosmo77]

c64 And AMIGA !! Commodore could become soooo much more, God Damn! xD

[uriituw]

Bad music.

[nillicella]

music bad,,,,bleah

[MSFproductionsMAIN]

Graphics Enviromental Operating System

GEOS for short. By Broderbund when I got it in the 80's for

my Commodore 64.

[thearchiveable]

@MSFproductionsMAIN

Berkley programmed it.

[ikeaaron]

Why do I feel like I had Geopaint for the Atari ST?

[TahreyUK]

@ikeaaron Neopaint mate. With an N. Bundled with the machine. And pretty nifty at that, not far off DeluxePaint's sophistication really.

One'a these days I may have to do similar if I can get my old ST working so I can show off how little extra utility we actually get with our more modern machines. Video/photo/MP3 playback and full colour graphics on webpages and DTP documents are about it... at the time we used all-analogue methods of achieving the same instead of doing it all thru one PC!

[CompTechMike]

Your song sucks!! :(

[justin76pa]

I have a C64 next to me, gotta see about getting GEOS on disk. Looks good!

[jocika99]

This is an emulator?

[jgrimsley2000]

What do you mean "you couldn't do much"? GEOS had a killer word processor (with spell check), graphic editor (better than MS-Paint), spread sheat, desktop publisher, data base, not to mention all the gadgets and 3rd party software. It was certainly more useful than any version of Windows up to Windows 95. GEOS also took advantage of 1581's, REU's, hard drives and RAM drives. The print quality was the best that could be had with a dot matrix.

[thearchiveable]

@jgrimsley2000

Yep. State of the art back then. CP/M had to be invented?

[TahreyUK]

@thearchiveable dude, this was about 7 years AFTER CP/M...

[thearchiveable]

@TahreyUK

4 years. CP/M86 was from 1982

Geos is from 1986.

:)

[TahreyUK]

@thearchiveable Hmm, I figured GeOS was later and CP/M earlier than both those? (as long enough after Mac/AmigaOS/GEM came along that some clever guys figured out how to massively shrink them (Atari GEM simply wouldn't have fit into the C64 despite having far fewer features), and early enough for the '81 IBM PC's MSDOS to be a ripoff of QDOS which was a ripoff of CP/M...) But then, you're the guy with the disks so I'm not going to fuss!

[TahreyUK]

@jgrimsley2000 Interesting concept that the Word Processor seemed to BECOME the OS when you loaded it, too. Making best use of the limited RAM, I suppose. Pity that we didn't see any document being written however, that would have sealed the deal.

[jgrimsley2000]

@TahreyUK I used it for college. The print quality was pretty close to inkjet quality, thanks to multi-pass print drivers. I had a choice of hundreds of fonts. The format and tab settings were click and move, just like any word processor in use today. The only limitaion was the 40 column screen, which auto scrolled while you were type. The was a preview mode that let you see the entire page. GEOS also supported Postscript laser printers...but who could afford a laser printer in 1989? ; )

[TahreyUK]

@jgrimsley2000 All I can say to that is... DAMN :-D

Why can't we have the same level of cleverness applied to modern machines and applications? We'd have proper AIs already. And greater speed and sophistication than current OSes and Apps in massively embedded machines that use about 1/2 watt & happily work off solar panels in the day and 4 AA's overnight.

Now you mention the fonts etc I'm suddenly recalling "Caxton Press" on the BBC Micro & Nimbus 186... and "Printmaster Plus"... good times...

[thefacesofevil16]

epic song.

[Lumotaku]

Geoworks came after Geos which was developed on the commdore 64 and 128 then ported to the apple and finally to the pc as geoworks

[Quessir]

Someone is obviously using a joystick and not a mouse!

[thearchiveable]

Was great back then, running a graphical OS in 64kb and still have room for your documents!

[BrianPicchi]

I still use GEOS 2.1 on my PDA, great o/s, its apple to have like 10 applications open at once.

[eadomino2]

jajajajaja q mierda es mejor windows 3.11 cabrones

[Craptron2000]

Aaaggh my ears are bleeding!

[ematech]

same speed as a pc nowadays of 3 ghz opening icon. c64 rulezz

[justin76pa]

No need for the music, but thanks for the upload. That's rather interesting. 

[edzzzwin]

Hey man, I got this application with my Commodore 1541-II diskdrive, nice to see it back. I wonder if my original disk still works.

[harleykman]

Okay music == loud. You should have spun-up the HVSC and played some commodore music instead. Like Commando or Arkanoid

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Also I don't remember GEOS having color? Mine was black-and-white like a mac. Hmmm

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[xadam2dudex]

not to many people know that GEOS when it was ported to the IBM PC was a true multitasking OS.. long before Microsoft came out with multitaking

[cobrachoppergirl]

Poor man's Lisa... for the time

[fritsie123]

Love the video, good to see GEOS again!

But, please, for the love of all that's good and holy, get rid of this horrendous music!

[fourfacets]

you guys ever notice how the vintage computer documentaries talk about the relationship between apple, ibm, and microsoft and never mention commodore? commodore made an immeasurable impact on the industry, yet historians always focus on the dynamics of A/I/M. check out pirates of silicon valley and nerds. completely ignored. commodore made other products too. i never knew that commodore made other noncomputer products. i saw a commodore radio on craigslist today for $60.

[harleykman]

@fourfacets Historians also never mention that most of the machines of that era (late 70s through 80s) ran on Commodore CPUs

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CMD 6502 and variants == Atari 2600 and 5200 game consoles, Colecovision, Atari 800, Apple II, Nintendo ES, and Super Nintendo

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[fourfacets]

@harleykman right...i remember seeing some university is still using the mos 6502 in their digital program. and i just picked up a fine condition sx-64 for $75...off topic, but i feel the need to tell people i got it. :)

[xadam2dudex]

@fourfacets lucky u

[pchapman905]

Just goes to show how horribly slow and bloated modern software is.

[mcasual]

i think when i finally had geos, not too long after that i had my first ibm XT - what's odd is that a computer that ran at 1 or 2 megahertz was not soooo much slower than the ones that runs at 3000MHz

[gibsonlespaul2]

@mcasual 0.16 MHz.... :P

[hddr3]

haha 160khz=0.16mhz! lol

[Motaro76]

Graphic operation system, what can be used on XT/AT and never hangs in contrast with Windows. But hardware manufacturers have interests to make more expensive computers. Otherwise, we'll still use 486's.

[TangomanX2008]

Isn't this song from Splinter Cell?

[ericaesop]

man you are my hero i still use geos . lol and my ibm thinkpad running windows 3.1. the c64 lives

[conwayFTW]

looks like linux

[pythonusr]

Uh, Linux can look like anything you want.

[alex23324523]

only 168kbs? wow

[RoderickStrong]

Now I know where Bill Gates and IBM "borrowed" the idea for Windows and OS/2 respectively

[SpeedBuggy02]

Xerox corporation developed the GUI concept with a Mouse. They screwed up by "giving away" the idea to Bill Gates.

[bphendri]

Wrong.. They showed the technology to Steve Jobs from Apple.

[BlackCow99]

I believe they gave it away to Steve Jobbs first. Then Bill Gates took it from Apple.

[winrid]

wow thats old... nice! hehehe

some of the apps look a bit like microshit...

looks like M.Shit copied their paint app. lol

[kikencorp]

GeoWorks Ensemble was the -PC- evolution of GEOS, which is what we see here (NOT Ensemble)

[petrock6]

I think it was Berkley back then.

[samoht1977]

@petrock6 Berkeley Softworks, indeed ;)

[robbiew73]

yeah everyone knows this as GEOS.. a disk based system only! It was very good for its time and better with a mouse plugged in.

[robbiew73]

GEOS was short Graphical Environment Operating System if I recall - although it was a looooooong time ago now..

[raernst]

It was called Geoworks Ensemble, not Geos. It was great would run on any system!

[petrock6]

It's called GEOS for short.

[samoht1977]

@petrock6 GEOS was the short for Graphical Environment Operating System - or something similar.

[butterzftw]

holy sheezy

[poke1103]

Where did you get it?

[petrock6]

I can't remember, I'm sorry.