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For more on revivals of vintage computing technology, check out " Retro technology still makes sense for some IT projects ," and " Using a Raspberry Pi Zero SCSI adapter to bring legacy and retro systems into the future " on TechRepublic, as well as " A professor found an Apple IIe in his dad's attic. And it worked " on ZDNet.

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It failed, but it gave us AOL. By Ernie Smith Jun 20, Tweet Share Subscribe. What GEOS did show is that cheap, low-power, commodity hardware and simple office productivity software worked. So what was GeoWorks like, anyway? Among the more interesting things about the platform: Different interfaces for different skill levels: DOS was not a simple operating system for novices to jump into, and GeoWorks Ensemble made an effort to ensure it was more approachable.

GeoWorks could barely even reach the ankles. Yet the software is advanced enough to satisfy experienced users of online services. Your time was just wasted by Ernie Smith Ernie Smith is the editor of Tedium, and an active internet snarker. Find me on: Twitter. More Attention Ploys. Jun 25, Holding Patterns The unusual state of hold music, which works pretty much the opposite way that every other kind of music does, for reasons both technical and psychological.

Jun 18, Subscribe Like what you're reading? First they leak the source code for WIndows, now this! What's the world coming to? The shit is going to hit the fan, I'm telling you Re:cool Score: 4 , Informative. Does anyone still use the Commodore 64 for anything serious? At best I would assume that it would be used as a gaming platform for people obsessed with the simple games for the Commodore that were released twenty years ago.

Or it would be used as an extended embedded system with a composite video television but no need for extensive disk storage. I was one of the Commodore 64's biggest fans. Re:cool Score: 3 , Interesting. So Simonetta sez: "Does anyone still use the Commodore 64 for anything serious?

I use it for address labels printed on my 24 pin dot matrix printer as well as for most of my letter-writting needs. In the time it takes to get the Macintosh booted and for the LaserWriter to spit out the letter, the has not only been used to write the letter, spell check it and print it, it has also printed the mailing label. Of course, if it's someone I regularly send mail to, then the , using a different.

What the hell? Score: 5 , Funny. Re:What the hell? Pushed hard? Great Timing Score: 5 , Informative. I got it running last weekend and I've written a few C64 disks using a normal 1. Not that Contiki isn't good too, but it would be really nice if the extra RAM in the Retro Replay cart was used to improve the web browser.

Re:Great Timing Score: 5 , Funny. Anyone who's still got a C64 should really consider upgrading Re:Great Timing Score: 5 , Informative. Put a sock in it. The C64 can nowadays serve web pages, surf the internet, receive email, and do office chores. All the time without being hacked! The OS boot time is also enviable just switch it on Just how many PCs these days are invulnerable to viruses, and boot instantly?

Some people are loath to buy more expensive word processors when they have one that already works, and has been adapted to work with newer hardware incl. They're just a few of the reasons why people still use these things! Oh, and did I mention the library of over 15, games?

Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you! Flamin' soviets Re:Great Timing Score: 3 , Informative. Define Horde Score: 5 , Funny. Re:Define Horde Score: 5 , Funny. Watch out, I hope their web servers will be capable of handling all 23 downloaders. This site will be Slashdotted for sure.

You must come from the rich part of town. I had to make due with my baud. I could read faster than that thing could print to the screen. Re:Define Horde Score: 3 , Interesting. My first 'online' experience was with a DecWriter I bought at a thrift store and a baud acoustic coupler. I didn't have a computer at home then that had provision for a modem. It was a true 'printing' terminal, meaning you had to eat up fanfold paper to go online with it. I hated the BBSes with huge login messages that you couldn't abort out of.

That was a long time ago, though. Re:Define Horde Score: 3 , Funny. Well, hordes is a relative term I'm sure 23 downloads puts a very harsh load on a Commodore 64 server.

And I have found Score: 2 , Interesting. Know I have use for them. And willing to share! Re:And I have found Score: 4 , Interesting. If you can, find the Schematics of the C64 on the internet and prise out the SID sound chips of those babies.

The sound chips of the C64 were revolutionary for the time, and even today are still sought after by SID music enthusiasts and other PC music junkies for use in PC board hardware - such as HardSID , and quite frankly I would like two of them myself! I had a Commodore 64 as a kid. It was small and fast, and it came with a basic set of tools. It was also fairly easy to learn the programming interface. Later, in the mid 90s, I met a guy who had it installed on an Intel box.

I had no idea at the time that they made a version. It did everything he needed, mostly writing. Score: 2 , Interesting. They leaked out the source code Score: 3 , Interesting. Score: 5 , Insightful. Re:and how do I use it? Score: 5 , Informative. Note: I tried making a cable to run off my PC's parallel port a couple of years ago, and it never worked. It's not as simple as it looks.

For those too lazy to read, it boils down to this: You cannot read or write a disk formatted for a Commodore drive on a PC, and the same is true for a PC-formatted disk in a Commodore drive. They use entirely different formats to write to the disk, it's not just a matter of a different filesystem. The above link allows one in theory to build a parallel one of the most common Commodore disk drives interface, and some PC software to handle the data transfer.

Either way, this is still pretty neat if just for legit emulator use. I remember GEOS when it first came out, and as annoying as it was, I saw pretty quick that this was the future for all home computing. It took me until the early 90s before I saw anything like this on the PC Macs have always been too pricey for my tastes. Score: 2 , Funny. Yea, the hard drives were really awful. Used to beat themselves to death against a track zero stop rather than just sense when the drive was at thack zero, all would go out of alignment in short order.

Mush more useful than a cable that would let you hook up an old to a PC would be a program that let a PC store everything on it's hard drive and serve files to the C64 over the serial cable protocol. Of course, they would have to emulate a lot of the subroutines too, and give you ways to run the fan. The only reason they ever "beat themselves to death" knocking over to track zero was because of the "awful copy protection" schemes and "fancy loaders". If used as designed, the didn't knock all that much.

So, yes they did go out of alignment sometimes, but it wasn't so much due to bad design, as due to abuse. I did use two s heavily for about 10 years fancy loaders, copy "protection", nibblers, and all without an alignment problem though.

Head alignment Score: 5 , Informative. I used to work in a computer repair shop in the early 90s, when we were just catching the tail end of the 8-bit computers I can still diagnose all the ZX Spectrum "stock faults" with a two-second look at the screen. We had a alignment disk, that had the "boot" tracks written really "hot" so even very badly out-of-alignment drives would read them, then tracks that started off deliberately too far out, worked their way to perfect alignment, and eventually were too far in, across the surface of the disk.

What happened was, it would boot off the disk, then start reading the "test" tracks until it found the track where it got the least CRC errors. Then it would smack the head off the end stop a few times, and try reading the disk again. Second thing to try after a headcleaner. PC-C64 file server programs Score: 4 , Interesting.

Actually, the program you mention already exists! In fact, there are two of them: server64 and 64hdd I don't have any links to provide at the moment, so load up your favorite search engine I suppose. Now, I've tried both of these, and I honestly can't remember which one was which. The first one I tried I think it was server64 didn't work at all The second one I guess 64hdd worked amazingly well!

All you had to do was build an X cable someone else already linked to the page with the information With the X cable connecting the parallel port of the computer to the serial port of the C64 or of a connected drive, since they daisy-chained , you could easily load and save programs from the computer's hard drive.

I set up a with an 80 meg hard drive enormous by C64 standards with no monitor or keyboard simply acting as a fileserver for my C The only problem was that the 's CMOS battery had died, so if the machine ever lost power, I had to drag a monitor and keyboard downstairs to reset all the BIOS information : I eventually gave up on it because I didn't use it very often I still have plenty of blank 5. The program actually let you create and browse directories although in a rather painful manner, since the C64's BASIC wasn't well suited for this , and you could keep.

I can't remember off-hand what the speed was like I seem to remember it being even slightly faster than the , but I might be mistaken. It certainly doesn't replace disks, but it'll provide essentially limitless data storage for all your homebrew and hobbiest stuff.

You don't Score: 5 , Interesting. You do what most people who play C64 these days do, you emulate it. Even a pathetically old PC should ahve no trouble at all emulating a C64, and there is no lack of C64 emulators out there www.

Then again, maybe you do use C64 hardware, I've heard stranger thigns. One of the guys I regularly hung out with had many characters, but only ever had one at a time on. Odd, that, as teh MUD let you log plenty in and even with a crap modem like I had you could handle lots. I mean it was just text after all. I was honestly stunned. Don't forget to use a hole-punch on the edge of the disk so you can use BOTH sides Score: 3 , Funny. Sheer luxury.

We used cassette tapes, and we were glad to have 'em, too!. We used to turn the volume up and sing along with the streaming bits out of gratitude that we were allowed to LOAD software on our computers Is this the same company?

Odd there is no mention of it. Am I making this up? You're thinking of Geoworks Ensemble. It did everything windows 3. Crash every seconds 2. Run more than the 30 or so apps that came with the distro.

Still, a good, solid windowing system for low-end hardware. GEOS is still around. Believe it or not, the GEOS codebase is still alive and kicking. I haven't gotten around to trying it personally, but it's supposedly updated for modern hardware and is capable of browsing the web.

Breadbox, the company that apparently owns the code now is marketing it as a low-cost alternative to Windows for schools that could be run on older hardware. Interesting in the least. Re:GEOS is still around. Score: 3 , Informative.