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ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017

Entry 15th June 2017: Post: 04


G E O S


That was funny... I had forgotten that my Commodore 1351 mouse had a 
copy of GEOS inside for the C64C

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/a_scuzz_may22/a_scuzz_may22_08.jpg

You have to hold down the right mouse button on boot. I got strange 
inputs of the number 2. Happened on three computers. I just deleted them 
and loaded GEOS from the disk in the box. Interestingly you still need 
to have a valid version of GEOS 1.3 or higher to allow you to access the 
software. You can see they were happy for Commodore to use the software 
but they also wanted everyone to buy GEOS.

The mouse is so slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. But works. I guess I 
could calibrate it. Sadly the icon for backing up GEOS is not to be seen 
anywhere.  The book clearly shows this icon for backing up your disks 
and encourages you to do so. But it aint anywhere to be seen. Maybe they 
clocked that users could simply flog on the copies. Dunno.

Strange using what feels like an old Amiga mouse on a C64. Just doesn't 
feel right.

GEOS is magic. I do enjoy mucking around with GEOS. Great little tool. I 
have like a massive box of collected stuff associated with GEOS 
including all the various flavours of disk OSs for the floppy drives on 
ROM chips. Even GEOS on ROM.

Good fun. All packed away now. Onwards.

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