#GEOS

[3584-tropical-fish]

Last year for my structural geology class we had a group chat because most of the department was in that class (this resulted in many memes of our professor being made. God bless) but truly the highlight was our fuck marry kill rock types debate

Anyways fuck igneous, marry sedimentary, kill metamorphic

[clatterbane]

Continuing with that nostalgic 8-bit GUI fun, largely thanks to some helpful soul on Reddit? I do now have mouse (really touchpad) passthrough working in there. And I now know what the Commodore key is even mapped to!

Does this mean that I have figured out how to launch what little there currently is using the icons yet? Nope! Single click selects, a double click doesn't work, and neither does hitting enter with it selected.

But, here's a short demonstration that the mouse DOES sorta work, and what the main menu options are. It's progress.

And now I'm tired enough of fooling with this that I'm about to escape into Green Hell for a while.

[commodorez]

Doing more with less with GEOS by Jonathan Sturges, Alex Jacocks

GEOS/GeoWorks on C64, C128, Apple II and IBM XT clone

VCF East XIX

[c64screengrabs]

A disk jacket for GEOS disks. I un-crunched the file but was sadly unable to open it.

[darker-than-darkstorm]

At first, I was going to say...

But that's not really accurate. More like...

But i guess that's not really accurate, either. Really, it was...

(Edit: I guess now that I think about it, MacOS 1.0 came out before GEOS, so those two should be swapped. The Commodore 64 originally came out before the first Macintosh computer, though)

[ruthlivingstone]

519pm Wick to Whaligoe

[This walk was completed on Monday, 13th May, 2024] Leaving Sarclet Haven behind, I carry on along The John o’Groats Trail. I’m tired now – this walk seems longer than I anticipated – but I must be nearly there. Another geo to walk around, fringed with pink thrift flowers. Turrie Geo, I think Continue reading 519pm Wick to Whaligoe

[szepkerekkocka]

640K ought to be enough for anyone

GEOS- from loading to GeoPaint

[meowfountain]

these guys are so silly i missed them too much

[erabu-san]

For the last 3 days, I've been brainrotting on a svsss & mdzs Genshin AU with a friend !! And wow I have so much fuuuun

[3584-tropical-fish]

There’s a beautiful world out there of soil formation that not enough people talk about and that I am not knowledgeable enough to discuss in depth but hey did you guys know that some bacteria get their energy straight from breaking down rocks*

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*Napieralski et al. 2019, Microbial chemilithotrophy mediates oxidative weathering of granitic bedrock

[fmarkets]

Revamping Q1 2024: GEOSsn Surpass Expectations with a Whopping 58.269% Revenue Growth https://csimarket.com/stocks/news.php?code=GEOS&date=2024-02-09092211&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[commodorez]

sorry "the commodore" just sounded cooler than specifying a machine. also i don't know any. but mostly the first thing

Gotcha. I'm sure there are some round-about ways to do it on a C64, PET, VIC, C128, etc. by accessing a BBS via a terminal and dial-up, but that's relying on a more powerful machine to handle the network connection and heavy lifting of an email client. There do exist modern network adapters for C64s, I've got one:

This is a C64NIC+, which I believe handles alot of the TCP/IP network stack internally, leaving the C64 available to run software. I've seen them used to play network games written within the past 15+ years. Personally, I've used mine to access IRC servers with a client known as GEOLINK (which is derived from the GEOS operating system).

[synnyi]

im on aethyta/benezia ao3 like it’s my damn job

[melinaforfun]

Yeah, my favorite ships in their relax time ♡

[ruthlivingstone]

519am Wick to Sarclet

[This walk was completed on Monday, 13th May 2024] I cycle the long, straight road into Wick, find the side road that leads past the Trinkie swimming pool, and reach the car park at the end of the lane. Then, I realise I forgot to bring my bicycle lock! (It’s been a year since I walked the coast, and I have forgotten my usual routine.) So, with some difficulty, I drag my Scooty bike down a…