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- References: <3@ppse.win-uk.net><umcwikla.823149540@castor>
- Reply-To: ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni)
- From: ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni)
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 18:31:24 GMT
- Subject: Re: Ha Ha ! Just inhereted a copy of GEOS V2.0 !!!!
-
-
-
- Hi !
-
- n article <umcwikla.823149540@castor>, Tom Cwikla
- (umcwikla@cc.umanitoba.ca) writes: >In <3@ppse.win-uk.net>
- ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni) writes: >> Yes, my
- pal's C64 has up and died, and I have inhereted the >>software. Now,
- I have a copy of GEOS V2.0, and it's all very nice >>but could do
- with some more RAM and a JiffyDOS I think. >
- >An REU will dramatically improve the performance of GEOS. Unfortunately GEOS
- >is rather slow, and somewhat inconvenient running with only a single 1541.
-
- >
- >Put your GEOS boot disk back in the drive that it was in while you were
- >running, and press RUN/STOP and RESTORE. (Or will RESTORE by itself do as
- >well??) GEOS will load itself back into memory. If you have an REU this
- >procedure is extremely fast, with a disk drive it will take almost the same
- >amount of time as loading it manually.
- >
-
-
- Right, I tried that and it worked OK.
-
- >> My copy did not come with a
- >>manual, and so where can I download / procure one ?
- >
- >As for as I know, CMD is still SELLING copies of GEOS, so I don't think they
- >would like it very much if someone was making copies of the manual available
- >for people to download.
-
- A ceritan site in Canada has a version of GEOS V2.0 to
- download, as I discovered last night..
-
-
- >
- >>Is the Connexions Magic Mouse compat. with GEOS ?
- >
- >If this Connexions mouse is 1531 compatible, then it will work with the 1531
- >driver. The 1531 mouse uses two "circular" pots attached to the POTX and
- >POTY inputs on the joystick port.
-
- Yes, that's the one. Slightly strange way to build a mouse,
- and beacuse of it it's MASSIVE. The 'Connexions Magic Brick' would
- be a better name for it ! Right, I don't seem to have a 1531
- driver. Where do I get one ?
-
-
-
- If your mouse is an Amiga mouse (or a PC
- >bus mouse), it generates quadrature signals for X and Y movement and will
- >NOT work with the 1531 driver. It is possible to build a converter using a
- >handful of chips.
- >
- >> Where can I get the
- >>driver if I need it ? Is there any way to alter the crappy
- >>Yellow/Blue/Grey/Mud coloured back drop ?
- >
- >I don't think there are any other drivers out there other than the standard
- >ones that come with GEOS. The one-page limit and the 60 calls per sec. limit
- >make input drivers quite a challenge to hack err write.
- >
-
-
- Hmmm, I see.
-
- >To change the colors use the "Pad color manager" utility (I can't remember
- >the exact name) to change any or all of the colors to whatever you like.
-
- Yes, that allowed me to change general colours, but what I
- wanted to do was change the backdrop. (Where a .BMP file goes in
- Windows, and where a crappy colection of dots go on the
- McCrapintosh.)
-
- Anyway, with a REU and a HD, it could be usefull. I must
- say that it is a bit lacking in features though..... (Maybe I'm to
- used to the PC ?)
-
- Cheers !
-
- Chip Pieroni..
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