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PC/Geos, Geoworks etc.

I had, well still have as well as New Deal Office 3.2a, GeoWorks Pro and ran it on a number of machines. It ran well on an XT with only 512k and MFM 10meg drive. Fondest install was on a slimeline Compaq Deskpro 268/12 with DrDos. That machine was past around quite a few family members and GeoWorks 1.x never hickupped at all compared to it's later incarnations.

Geos is still available for PCs at http://www.breadbox.com/ for anyone interested.
 
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I have an old copy of Geoworks somewhere will need to find that and install it because I don't
remember much about it. I do recall it had a very slick interface which looked much better
than Windows or OS/2 at the time......
 
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Rick Ethridge said:
I have both the Commodore versions and PC/Geos running on my Tandy 1000 SL with VGA card in 800/600. Runs nice except it doesn't have many native applications.
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There is a later version, called Geoworks Ensemble, that has a word processor, spreedsheet, Tetris, and solitare included. It runs on the IBM PC, needs 512K of RAM and 3 megs of hard disk space.

Sean
 
GeoWorks Pro 1.2 had a cut down version of the dos Quatro Pro spreadsheet program with a native pc/geos viewer which allowed cut and pasting of the spreadsheet data into other applications iirc. Of course 2.0 and up came with a native spreadsheet application and flat file data base. Here's a review from 1993 about GeoWorks Ensemble v2.0 http://www.markshapiro.com/Issue8.p12-p30.html
 
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Geowrks under XP, Vista and Win 7 / GDI mode / German site for all versions!

Geowrks under XP, Vista and Win 7 / GDI mode / German site for all versions!

Hi Geoworks guys! Greetings from Freiburg, Germany!!

We here at www.geos-infobase.de have a very useful Geoworks site, with many programs, also the old Tva Katter files, with pictures, tips and a nice (German) forum.

I personally have nearly all versions, ever made, except the old Geoworks Beta aka Geoworks v0.9x or named early as OS/90 or the later and special OS/2 looking IBM SchoolView...

I have them running natively on old PCs like IBM PS/1 (model 2011, 2121, 2123,2133), PS/1000, PS/2 and several old Laptops from IBM and Compaq, and Tablet PCs like IBM 710T. On the tablet PCs also with stylus (!).

On newer PCs with faster CPUs above 1.6 GHz you can directly run the newest GEOS incarnation named BREADBOX ENSEMBLE v.4.13 from Breadbox LLC at www.breadbox.com or all older GEOS version with helping programs.

If you wil start one or more Geoworks versions directly in windows you can change nearly every GEOS system to work as a GDI-System under XP, Vista and Win7 32-bit.

You may also start it in the brilliant emulators VIRTUAL PC 2007 SP1 or DOSBox 0.74 under XP, VISTA and WINDOWS 7. Both worlds, 32-bit and 64-bit!!

DOSBox and other emus helps also to bring them onto Linux machines, OS X machines and stunningly also onto the iPad with Jailbreak and BOCHS emulator!

And look on eBay for HP OmniGo 100/120, or Brother GeoBook, Zoomer and GlobalPCs...these old machines from around 1994-2000 all are working with embedded Geos. And don't forget the cellular phones NOKIA communicator 9000/9110...

You see, a wide field of GEOWORKS platforms!

If you have ever any question about PC/GEOS, Geoworks, NewDeal Office or Breadbox, you can ask me here: epapressagency@aol.com

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Geoworks under XP, Vista and Win 7 / GDI mode / German site for all versions!
 
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Always wondered what happened to Tva Katter. It was one of the most interesting of the PC/Geos related sites and very well laid out. Wouldn't mind getting hold of a GlobalPC. They weren't available in this neck of the woods though.

Nice site EPA.
 
I'm glad I started it ;). Found my GeoWorks Pro 1.2 disks yesterday so will slap that on the system I hope to aquire tomorrow.
 
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Just been playing around with the built in file transfer utility in the file manager. Only ever had one machine with PC Geos on at a time in the past so no need to use the utility previously. This was available from v2 up using com ports only. You set it up by going to the Connect button in Preferences. From there you setup the drive to be connected(only one at a time), baud rate, com port and pc name. The two PCs are connected (referred to as File Linking in Geos) using a null modem cable. The file linking utility uses the file manager to take over the machines (runs full screen), refusing access to other applications on either PC. Transfers files fine both ways from both machines. Haven't used file linking via the industry standard GUI though but I suspect it'd be a similar experience.

One quirk it does have is it spits a dummy when trying to transfer from remote to host, particularly if trying to copy a directory by drag n drop. Host to remote transfers are fine. Comes up with an error (KR-09) on both boxes and locks them solid. Prompts to press "E" shuts down, which once pressed will give a KR-35 error whereby you need to hard reset the system. Ctl-Alt-Del will not work. On resetting and restarting geos prompts you to Start Normally or Reset. It is possible for geos to hang again, it's happened to me in the past, so usually reset is the one to choose. But in this case start normally works ok.

Disconnected file linking then tried the terminal program, *Comm being in all versions of PC Geos I understand. That went fine using the default settings without any dramas but one way transfers at a time. Lots of options to speed things up and select the type of terminal etc.

Personally I'd use the built in file transfer setup as a last resort. The preferred method being connected via ethernet, transferring files that way or by using other means.

Shot of the CDS524 C drive icon linked on the Acer Acros:

filelink.JPG
 
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