#GeoWorks

[szepkerekkocka]

640K ought to be enough for anyone

GEOS- from loading to GeoPaint

[siblingshuffle]

Day 24

“Y-You lied to me,” Rock whispered, his eyes blown wide with shock and horror. “You said she was just gonna stay until after the phone call. Th-then her Dad was gonna pick her up. That’s what you said…”

“Oh, he will. After he does something for me,” Wily cackled. “That’ll teach him to get involved in matters he’s not a part of!”

Rock didn’t realize he was backing away until he bumped into a workbench.

“YOU LIED TO ME!” He repeated the weight of everything sinking in. Panic coursed through his circuits. “You lied! What else have you been lying about?! Roll kept insisting I was her brother; was that true?! Am I a Lightbot?! Are they even—”

He couldn’t process. Everything was wrong. None of his Experience Data could be trusted.

He had to get out.

Without a word, Rock teleported away. He didn’t even check the coordinates. As long as it wasn’t here.

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Lore:

Rock is a very loyal robot. But the moment he found out Wily had lied about everything, he freaked out. Now he couldn’t trust the guy he thought he could.

What was he supposed to do now? Other than have an existential crisis in the bushes surrounding Geoworks HQ, that is.

[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

[speedystarfield]

❝  heh,  now  tha’s  a  spirit  I  can  respect!  ah  only  keep  tha’  Code  on  me  cuz  i’s  wha’  keep  me  connected  t’  th’  touch-in  network  with  th’  rest  o’  mah  sibs,  othe’  the’  tha’,  none  o’  us  associate  ouselves wit’  baldi  big  pub’  stash,  if  anythin’  he’s  th’  on’  trynna   retrieve  us  back!  funny  how  thin’s  works  ain’t  it?  ❞

[oh-nxts-and-bxlts]

@team-geoworks​ started following oh-nxts-and-bxlts

“Oh lordy - it’s been half a while! Hi Echo, long time no see! Still not settled on yer’ rivalry with TunnelTot42?”

[daxwebster]

Starter for @geoworks-international

Dax had loaded a satchel with some extra special supplies for this trip. Two datacards, one loaded with curated pictures of the Nuvola’s repaircat army, and one of the sunsets you can only get footage of from cloud height. Also some actual important documents with recognizable use, but those were important in a different way. He was supposed to be bringing those on his way.

He’d have brought coffee from one of his other stops, but had decided against it as he knew anything strong enough for Alia to enjoy drinking it probably wasn’t allowed to cross borders without extra paperwork. He knocked on the door, wondering if maybe he should have sent a message ahead that he’d be coming. Too late now.

[dpn-datalogs]

[potatoes83]

Oh, now see, I had replied to another version, yes, I fondly remember Windows XP... But then someone had to go and raise it to the Commodore 64 (LOAD "*" ,8 ,1), and of course, Windows 3.1 (I actually had 3.11, which was Windows for Workgroups; it had some other special bells and whistles designed for networking)

So if we're going down memory lane, at elementary school we had a slew of Apple IIc in the library, got our first IBM PCs when I was in the second grade (bridge machine with terminals daisy-chained off of that, bridge connected to the server over a token-ring network with absolutely shit physical connections; that thing was ALWAYS going down) running its own proprietary operating system. Middle school saw the advent of Windows 3.1 PCs. In high school we started to get our first PCs running Windows 95/98.

Home, we (and yeah, this is totally backwards), we got my grandpa's hand-me-downs. His department at Chrysler went from metal model molding to CAD, and they were planning on making him redundant; he demanded that they teach him the computer instead, and got one at home to practice on. And he kept his job, and he continued to be very good at it. Mad props to my grandpa Chuck! So that was their Commodore 64 with single disk drive, then their first PC, a Laser 386 (8 mhz turboed to 16!) running PC Geoworks Ensemble over DOS, the Packard Bell 486 (33mhz) with CD ROM drive, running Windows 3.11 over MS DOS 6.22, and the Packard Bell 486 DX (a shocking 66 mhz) running the same bundle. Upgraded those to Win '95, my other grandma then bought us a PC with Windows '98 off QVC, which eventually got upgraded to a bootleg copy of XP that was making the rounds... And by that point, I had castoffs from my friends, I was totally into computer building, so it was any variety of hardware that would run XP, until Vista, 7, and 10 (I've never, or have had extremely limited use of 2000, ME, 8, and 11).

Heh... I feel old now! 🥔

[angsty-cobrafish]

📜for Comet and Bass?

[siblingshuffle]

Sibling Shuffle: Suspicion

“What? Why on earth would Dr. Wily make a robot that fights robots that HE reprogrammed?”

“I’m not sure. …Maybe I should check on her, just to be safe— huh?”

“What? What is it?”

“The lab door - it’s locked from the inside!”

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Sorry again for the delay!

————— LORE:

So. I’m not sure if it’s really established if Bass was really that badly damaged from Shade Man or if he was playing it up, but Piano did sustain heavy damage. That being said, she always was more of a strategist than a battle-hungry fighter, so I can’t imagine that she didn’t see this as an opportunity to accomplish her goals with a minimal amount of conflict.

As for the Lights, Dr. Light was always very optimistic, but he had a strange feeling about his daughter’s new alleged ally. Not enough that he would refuse fixing her (he’s way too nice to do that) but definitely enough that Blues decided to look into who built her. That search wasn’t going very well… Until Dr. Light got a good look at Piano’s systems, and realized just how similar they were to Roll’s.

This was weird to him for several reasons:

Internal systems often look very different from Robot Master to Robot Master.

Roll is a first-generation Lightbot, making it strange for someone would copy her design - there have probably been many advancements in technology since her creation that would be more efficient, but Piano’s systems look almost the same as Roll’s.

Roll is a Helper robot/Child, making it weird that someone would copy her design to make a combat robot. While the public may know her as the heroic Super Fighting Robot, Roll wasn’t built with that in mind, hence her childlike design. Piano also has a childlike design, but she identified herself as a robot built for combat (making design choices like a child’s face and robot hair very strange).

So. Someone very likely copied Roll’s design. And that Someone knew how to do it and knew how to design a core strong enough to support a robot like Piano, and knew how to build weapons similar to Roll’s Mega Buster. And guess who fits that criteria and is a serial plagiarist?

——— This next section is just breaking down Blues’s List of People Who (Probably) Didn’t Build Piano (at least, the candidates he listed aloud.)

Cossack Robotics Laboratory: He looked into them first because Dr. Cossack did build a combat robot in the past (even if it was under duress). I decided to go with one of the few things I know about the Megamix/Gigamix continuity: the whole thing with Skull & Ring Man’s functions. I went with Skull Man being the only CossackBot made for combat, while Ring Man was made to be like a detective (though he hadn’t been activated as a detective - his first time waking up was with Wily’s programming installed). Unlike that version of Skull Man, though, Sibling Shuffle Skull Man was repurposed once Kalinka was safely un-kidnapped - now he’s like her bodyguard (just to be sure she is never re-kidnapped). (Credit for that last idea.)

Geoworks International: His investigation into Geoworks was probably the quickest lol. He kinda just called up Tempo and was basically like “Hey, you get any new sisters since Rhythm? No? Yeah, I didn’t think Dr. LaLinde built her anyway.” (He didn’t want to speak to Dr. LaLinde directly, so called his best friend instead lol)

The Military: The energy consumption of robots with independent thought was a bit high** for the US*** government to want any. They have plenty of Joes, instead. Sniper, Gunner, Hammer, Rider, Apache, Cannon… and those have been getting the job done well so far. If it ain’t broke, you know?

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Footnotes:

*The events of the 6th Game. I can’t imagine that with the sponsor of the tournament gone (for all intents and purposes) they would keep it going another year. And with Wily breaking out of jail & causing a ruckus so often, I assume even if making more fighting robots wasn’t illegal, it would be very much frowned upon/side-eyed nervously

**Blues himself serves as an example. Granted, Robot Master technology becomes more and more efficient as the timeline progresses, but even then I think the government would be… hesitant to implement technology that Dr. Wily consistently reprograms.

***This assumption is based on this map from Megaman 8, which implies Light Labs to be somewhere in America.

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I’ll try to get the next Minicomic out in a good amount of time. (Might answer questions / comments in the meantime? Idk)

[hxrderthansteel]

Missed this blog. Hope mun & Hard are doing ok and have a nice week 🤙 (and his haircut looks really nice!)

Hard says thank you for the compliment!

Mun and him are...well...not doing great, but y’know...exposure and all.

[robotic-hearts-n-minds]

Nightmares of a Cyborg Faun

{Starter with @geoworks-international}

Thalia was still occasionally glancing up into the sky, wondering if her optics would pick up on where Comet’s space shuttle was. She sighed, a little disappointed when the answer was still no. The young one was staying very close to her mother and sisters right now, clinging either to Noele or Centaur as they walked about the facility where allowed. 

She couldn’t... figure out why, but some part of her was... scared. Worried, and anxious. And what seemed a thousand other feelings she couldn’t name. Maybe that she didn’t know why was what scared her the most. Everything was fine. She still had her other sisters, Comet was built to survive space.... he was... still in jail. Still locked up.

Everything was fine, right?

[dhn-squad]

The search

(Log: @geoworks-international and @dpndatalogs)

Forecast Woman stood upon looking at a beach, umbrella out as she sighed. Today, was the day. They need to find Gust Man, they have to.

“You sure it was worth bringing Cody and Scrappy’s stuff along?” Watcher Man asked from his holographic screen. He chose to stay behind and let ten of his hands accompany the group.

“Yes, Code Man offered to assist in the search and Scrappy can help repair Gust Man once we find him.” Forecast Woman said, not turning to face the hand.

“I get that but this is Scrappy you’re talking about. SCRAPPY. You know how it can definitely DESTROY Gust more!” Watcher Man protested furiously to which Forecast Woman responded with, “To Scrappy, the un-salvageable is salvageable. We must use every material we can, even if it means taking extreme risks.”

“Urgh.... You’re remind me of Nester.... But you’re right.” Watcher Man said and Forecast Woman went silent at the name of one of their creators. Watcher Man then rolled his eyes after a moment of silence and sighed, “Butc I believe we only need one thing: Gust’s cognitive circuit.”

“Yes. If it’s safe, then Gust Man can come back, even if his body is salvageable or not.” Forecast Woman finally said with a nod when Watcher Man said only one word that puts them in silence again, “If.”

Meanwhile Sound Man has resurfaced alongside some robotic fishes and a few anglerfish on the water,

“H-how is it?...” Sound Man asked as a fish opens its mouth and a familiar voice speaks out of it, “It’s great! Better than ever!”

Code Man was inside a sandcastle the other nine hands built as Scrappy continued to eat sand with the hands making sure that it stayed away from the sandcastle.

[gearsoffate]

Liquid Counselling

@geoworks-international

Welp...nothing quite as demoralizing as getting beaten up by yourself at a Denny’s at 8 in the morning because the other you didn’t like how you handled your father issues. Luckily, Skull had two very effective aides who were about to help him forget all about it; the Kalashnikov twins.

Putting his teleporter on shuffle and warping to the first secluded spot, Skull sat down at the base of a tree, popped a bottle open, and started to drink deep.

[notsobabblespace]

I'm DOS was still DOS instead of MS-DOS, because GUIs weren't a thing yet let alone Windows, old.

My first GUI OS was GeoWorks.

Anyone?

[doctaskull]

“Good point my bee... cousin? Half-sister? Erm, nevermind.”

“But anyways, it’s a three way dick measument contest: A dickhead to almost everyone, a dickhead to dickheads and a tired dickhead.