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RetrópolisRepórter Retro 108<a href="https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/31/reporter-retro-108/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/31/reporter-retro-108/</a><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/ReprterRetro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReprterRetro</a> #68000 <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/68000EUmaNoites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#68000EUmaNoites</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/8BitShowAndTell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#8BitShowAndTell</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/AdrianBlack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdrianBlack</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/AppleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AppleII</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/AppleIIc" class="mention 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TheTomas<a href="https://mas.to/@windowsonwindows" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@windowsonwindows</a> This was the far better GUI for DOS in 1992... running even on older XTs and ATs. Later it came out, that MS gagged its Vendors on Windows <a href="https://social.toot9.de/tags/geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geoworks</a> <a href="https://social.toot9.de/tags/geos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geos</a>

Michael Gisiger :mastodon:“Before Windows became a fact of life for most computer users, a scrappy upstart named <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/GeoWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoWorks</a> tried taking Microsoft on. It failed, but it gave us the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Nokia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nokia</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Communicator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Communicator</a> 9000.”<a href="https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/</a>I'm still toying with the idea of giving a talk on <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/GEOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOS</a> 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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/@feedle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@feedle</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

vga256i'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. 😆 <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/zzt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zzt</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/shareware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shareware</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windows95</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/win31" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#win31</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/exigy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exigy</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geoworks</a>

@Rp12Biker :verified:Oh, there seems to be a first release of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GeoWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoWorks</a> PC/Geos found here: <a href="https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos/releases/tag/CI-latest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos/releases/tag/CI-latest</a> I didn't tried to install it on an old machine, so your feedback is welcome. If I remember correctly you have to download the fonts from distribution. But there some included in the archive. <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenGEOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenGEOS</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Geos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geos</a>

vga256yep, that's the font alright.😎 dare to dream<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geoworks</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/fonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fonts</a>

vga256fellow geoworks lovers and related operating system outcasts:does anyone know how/where the GeoWorks 1.x/2.x *system* bitmap fonts are stored?i'm speaking specifically about the fonts used throughout the UI, and the one used on the splash screen for "Ensemble 2.0"i've spent hours trying to figure this out, and i'm not much closer<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geoworks</a>

@Rp12Biker :verified:The Siemens-Nixdorf <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PCD4NL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCD4NL</a> arrived today. After a medium long evening here is the result. First try was looking for the defective floppy - belt broken. Afterwards directly to an image and this to a SD card with adapter for 2,5" IDE. <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GeoWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoWorks</a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Win311" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Win311</a> starting like rockets, the small 486 is more than powerful enough for it. More detailled pics in better quality will follow. Enough for today. <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Geos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geos</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ComputerMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerMuseum</a>

Willard GooseySo I'm trying to get <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GEOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geoworks</a> running on the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Book8088" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Book8088</a>. tldr not working yet.10x 360k virtual disks. Extracted the files with dcfr. Won't run like that it has to be installed, almost all the files are actually compressed. The installer will ONLY install from a: or b:fine. copied the files onto a new sd card that the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/book8088" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book8088</a> has decided to talk to, once a fat16 partition has been set up.used SUBST to assign b: to the d:. edited geos.toc to only refer to the one disk 1/2

Scott Williams 🐧Nor the glory of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geoworks</a> PC-GEOS for that matter.

Adrian McEwenDug out this late-90s-vintage Brother GeoBook from my work archive, after reading <a href="https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/06/o-brother-geobook-lets-get-thou-back-on.html?lr=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/06/o-brother-geobook-lets-get-thou-back-on.html?lr=1</a>We (at STNC) wrote the IP stack and web browser libraries (maybe email too?).There's only the tiniest bit, if any, of my code on this - I did a few weeks on it when I started at STNC but then switched to the Psion Series 5 web browser.<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Brother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brother</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/GeoBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoBook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/STNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STNC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geoworks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/GEOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOS</a>

Geoworks & NewDeal FanGreenPC, the wholly owned subsidiary of NewDeal, Inc (the licensee of PC/GEOS from <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geoworks</a>), was an attempt by Clive Smith to preach his "Bridge the Digital Divide". GreenPC's CEO was Janice DiPietro who was also the Chief Financial & Operating Officer of NewDeal, Inc. Additionally, she helped co-create (with Smith) the New Deal Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to bringing technology to the world’s less fortunate) which she also chaired the Board of Directors.<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOS</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/FreeGEOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeGEOS</a>

Ernie SmithEveryone, please follow <a href="https://bitbang.social/@GeoworksFan" class="u-url mention">@GeoworksFan</a>—it’s the fediverse’s second <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GeoWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GeoWorks</a> fan account, after me.

vga256part of building my <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> time machine art exhibits involves creating box art for software that i create.here's the box art for an operating system i've been building in Unity. think of it as all of the worst parts of OS/2, Windows 3.1, DESQview and <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/GeoWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoWorks</a> Ensemble combined.thank you to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ThreeOhFour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ThreeOhFour</a> who added some much needed 80s pizzazz to the center graphic

Justin FloodIs anyone else old enough like me to remember <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AOL</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOS</a>? It ran inside <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoWorks</a> if I remember correctly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>. Feelin’ old these days. 🤣

Ernie SmithThere need to be more <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/geoworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#geoworks</a> enthusiasts out here. Where are you, GEOS nerds? <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#noxp</a>

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