This month on Open Apple we sit down with Robert Bowdidge, one of three interns at Berkeley Softworks who ported GEOS to the best line of 8-bit computers. We talk about what a great place Berkeley Softworks was, along with the power of good tools and proper software engineering. Robert has great memories of the […]
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AppleCommander gets Apple GEOS file support
The Java-based AppleCommander disk image handling application has been updated to add support for Apple GEOS files. According to the comp.sys.apple2 post by David Schmidt: AppleCommander command line support has been added to properly place cc65-produced GEOS files on ProDOS images. John Matthews has posted the 1.3.5.11 build in the AC download page: https://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander This […]
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A look at the Apple GEOS file structure
While the Apple II version of GEOS was never as popular or well-supported as the Commodore variant, there are still a few within the A2 community who enjoy this early GUI. Oliver Schmidt has taken the time to dig a little deeper into GEOS, and having discovered the secrets of the file structure, published his […]
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Call-A.P.P.L.E. releases GEOS CD
This morning, our good friend Bill Martens over at Call-A.P.P.L.E. announced the (re-)release of the GEOS Apple II CD. Containing a wealth of documentation and software, this download weighs in at a hefty 140 MB. GEOS is a graphical user interface for 8-bit computers that was originally developed and released by Berkeley SoftWorks for the […]