just think of what we could have had 🥲

#geoworks #desqview #unix #msdos

My #TandyZoomer arrived... I took a chance since *every* one on ebay couldn't power on, and sure enough it has a fiddly battery mechanism involving safety switches that nobody bothered to figure out! So it works! 🎉

Except the lower half of the screen is a bit wonky... might be a loose cable, worth a stripping and cleaning...

Anyway, it comes with #AOL. Which isn't surprising, since there was a #Geoworks version...

Gotta make a serial cable for the weird port and figure out the PCMCIA slot...

Jetzt mit 640 KB RAM habe ich es endlich geschafft auch Geoworks zu installieren. Eine moderne Motif-UI auf einer 8088er CPU mit 9.54 Mhz aus dem Jahr 1988

P.S. ich bitte um Entschuldigung für den nackigen Euro-PC im Bild

#Retro #RetroComputer #EuroPC #geoworks

Repórter Retro 108

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/31/reporter-retro-108/

#ReprterRetro #68000 #68000EUmaNoites #8BitShowAndTell #AdrianBlack #AppleII #AppleIIc #BASIC #BBC #BBS #biblioteca #cartuchos #Ceefax #CERN #Commodore64 #CommodoreSX64 #CompuServe #DriveDeDisquete #elite #EUA #eZ80 #FORTRAN #Galaxian #GEOS #GeoWorks #Hackaday #HDMI #InterfaceGrfica #JecelMattosDeAssumpoJr #Livros #Macintosh #MacintoshII #MacintoshIIcx #MSDOS #namco #NES #Nintendo #PlacaDeVdeo #RC2014 #ReinoUnido #

“Before Windows became a fact of life for most computer users, a scrappy upstart named #GeoWorks tried taking Microsoft on. It failed, but it gave us the #Nokia #Communicator 9000.”

https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/

I'm still toying with the idea of giving a talk on #GEOS and/or a showcase of original hardware and the various GEOS/GeoWorks versions at a conference. Could be fun, now that parts of GeoWorks are going to be open source.

via @feedle

#retrocomputing

i've been posting a lot of my shareware research lately, because i've been working on a project for the past few months with a blend of Windows 3.1 & GeoWorks Ensemble used as inspiration.

Exigy is a tile-based game creation kit that lets you make windows 3.1/95-styled games, like spiderweb software's Exile or rick saada's Castle of the Winds. hell, you could remake the Microsoft Entertainment Pack if you wanted to :)

the editor is very intentionally built to work like MS Visual Basic: you can drag and drop any GUI element into the game editor window and script in your own actions with lua. it even comes with its own built-in sprite editor, so you can create your art while you work.

games are modified in real-time with no compiling. the entire thing is built in Love2D.

think of it as ZZT for windows 3.1 if that had ever existed. 😆

#zzt #shareware #dosgaming #windows95 #win31 #exigy #gamedev #geoworks

The Register: #FreeDOS and #FreeBSD prove old code never dies, just gets nifty update

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/02/freedos_30_freebsd_31/

"The classic #GEOS graphical desktop, which started out on the #Commodore 64 and later moved to the PC and was variously renamed #GeoWorks, #BreadboxEnsemble, and other names, is now #FOSS and you can get it from GitHub"

https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

For years I have been thinking about writing an article and possibly giving a talk on the evolution of GEOS. 🤷