Booting GEOS - In 2008 - 25 years!

Songs:
3's and 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
I take no credit in the making of the music, geos, commodore 64, or any commodore products or programs.
I only take credit in posting filming and explaining this video.
GEOS Was one [one of!] the first operating systems with a GUI [Graphic User Interface].
You couldn't do much, considering the fact your hard drive back then was just 180kb, and so was your ram...

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• 128
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• pmfg
• 1988
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• 180kb

[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.

[raernst]

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

[petrock6]

It's called GEOS for short.

[poke1103]

Where did you get it?

[petrock6]

I can't remember, I'm sorry.

[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.

[pythonusr]

Uh, Linux can look like anything you want.

[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.

[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 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 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]

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

[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.

[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...

[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!

[astrocosmo77]

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