ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2017 Entry 09th December 2017: Post: 1 GEOS with a NEOS I managed to dig out the old NEOS today so I could have a play with GEOS on the C64. This little mouse normally comes with his cheese but I do have one lying around as a replacement for the 1351. Tricky little mouse to get running given that for GEOS it has to run in the Joystick port and the trick is to switch on and keep the left mouse button depressed. Thing is the characters go flying across the screen and you need to get your finger off pretty quick. If you fail to follow that procedure you will end up as you do with an Amiga mouse, just typing garbage across the screen. To run the Cheese paint package you have to use the tape datasette, obviously. Stick in the tape and without the mouse installed type Load "cheese",1,1 and then let it run. It will take almost all the tape and it looks like nothing is happening. Eventually you will get a READY command and at this point you type in SYS4096. Wait for the Cheese program to start then stuff in the mouse in Port 2, the one furthest away from you. And you will be painting cheese in no time. Quite interesting ... but I was here for GEOS. Sorry for the less than clear GEOS images. My camera is a law to its own and try as I might sometimes there is something about the display that the camera just cannot home in on to focus. GEOS worked just fine with the mouse and I was able to access all of the GEOS menus. Great little mouse I have to say. Saved me having to risk the 1351 which is a rarity to me. The C64 I call Christina given that I was listening to an album of Ms Aguilera whilst recently repairing this little baby The repair involved the replacement of the base of the computer which you can see varies in colour to the original top Interestingly the colours match to the rear I will be using an old bw television to test out GEOS with the NEOS And serial so no need to use these expansions still a very serviceable computer the C64 I chose the old style simply cus I think she actually photographs better Enter the 1571 If you want guaranteed service from a 5.25" you really cannot beat the 1571 This floppy drive is so reliable. The best. Just so easy and simple to use I do prefer Commodore with their insistence on rocker switches. Sadly I have so many Amiga monitors with broken or faulty push in and out switches, I would kill for rockers Enter the NEOS.. Cute or what ! Time was when even a simple button had a special ridge to stop your finger slipping off I had this mouse for quite a while before I realised it was for the C64 NEOS MS-30 by the Nihon Electronics Co Ltd. Introduced in 1985 for the C64 and the C128. Kinda cruel to suggest its a joystick that looks like a mouse. Sadly had little support Still.. worth its weight in gold today I discovered what this mouse was when I found one in my cheese box The NEOS Mouse Cheese Complete with tape cassette Load "cheese" and enjoy the mouse driven painting package on the C64 Time to test the mouse with GEOS Loading command for the 1571 Finds and loads GEOS What it says ' Booting GEOS ' And there we have GEOS Again sorry for the fuzzy images File menu activated by the NEOS View menu Disk menu Special menu Calculator with this years date The mouse is restricted to the actual shape of the calculator Things .. seriously GEOS Demo And there we have it A successful test of the NEOS With GEOS Using a MEOS... Mouse OK this mouse definitely looks like a joystick A very green joystick Power Play A more apt name would be ' Crusher ' Definitely not a mouse Well that's it for today I'm deep into games cassettes tomorrow to be sure to tune in

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