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Upgrading Goes
Terry/Raymon
To update Geos to my knowledge is to
use Maurice Randall's patch that uses
the power of the SCPU, I think this
was the best upgrade "ever" for Geos
2.0, but the downside of this is you
have to "patch" the original Geos 2.0
boot disk to do so.
Wheels 64 and Wheels 128 Minimum
recommended hardware:
C=64 or C=128
C= Monitor
C= 1351 or CMD Smart Mouse
Geos or C= REU
1541 or 1571 drive or CMD drives.
Wheels 64 and Wheels 128 Maximum
recommended hardware:
C= Monitor
C=1351 Mouse or CMD Smart Mouse
CMD SCPU plus 1mb or more Super Ram.
CMD HD, Ramlink, FD-2000.
Geos or C= REU
C= drives optional
CMD Geocable II for faster printing.
To upgrade to Wheels 64 or Wheels 128
all you have to do is the following:
Order either Wheels 64 or Wheels 128
from Maurice Randall and then when you
get your Wheels disk, do the
following: Type this from the READY
prompt:
LOAD"STARTER",8 press RETURN key
It has been a long time since I have
done this but Wheels needs your
original Geos2.0 disk to get the
"serial number", after this is done
put back your original Geos 2.0 boot
disk. Now you can boot Wheels and you
dont need the 2.0 boot disk, only for
the applications like: Geowrite,
Geopaint etc, all these old
applications will run in Wheels with
no problem. The only thing is if you
have "only" a new Geos boot and new
applications disk you need to install
"all" new applications first: "only on
the original applications disk". To
do this for example you click on the
Geopaint Icon this will run Geopaint
for the first time and install it, do
the same with all other applications.
After the applications are installed
you can copy those applications to
your installed Wheels (NOT THE
ORIGINAL), there is an installer on
your master disk that allows you to
make other master disks, and bootable
partitions.
To create Bootable partitions like on
the CMD HD or Ramlink, create a fairly
large Native partition, then with your
"original" Wheels master disk, run
the install application. When this
begins you can either select to create
a new Master boot disk or a bootable
partition, select either. After that
you can freely select the Native
partition you just selected and
Wheels is now on its way to creating
either a new Master disk or bootable
partition. On the Master disk
everything is installed and copied,
but on the bootable partition
only the system files are created and
printer drivers only.
I would always make a new Master disk
right away and then put away the
original Wheels Master, use only the
created Master disk, then you can add
all applications etc
In wheels you can double click on the
Toolbox, in this you can setup any
drive configurations, including using
the SCPU Ram as a Ramdrive. Im not
going to discuss setting up the Whole
Ramdrive (for SCPU), but ONLY use
around 16396k of RAM only, dont use
all the SCPU RAM since this is your
system RAM that Wheels uses. In
Wheels there is also a way to change
the Background wallpaper, I think
this is done in the Toolbox, and
adjusting the Mouse speed. All other
operations are self explanatory and
easy to use, even for beginners.
The best change to Wheels is you
don't have to worry about the border
files, Wheels OS itself operates in a
totally different nature, which in my
opinion is a lot better and you don't
have to worry about those pesky border
files anymore. Wheels itself does
include more colors than Geos 2.0 did,
but this I think depends on how
applications are programmed, more for
the 16 bit SCPU I believe. Another
subject is The Wave Browser started by
Maurice Randall himself in year 2000,
Maurice decided to do this because we
finally had a faster processor and more
memory to work with.
The Wave 64 and The Wave 128(80 column
only) requirements:
C=64 or C=128 computer
CMD SCPU, (Required Wave browser wont
run without it)4mb ram or more).
CMD HD, Ramlink, FD-2000, 1581
1351 Mouse
Swiftlink, Turbo 232 Modem interface &
needed Modem cables.
Any external Hayes compatible Modems
Be setup with dialup ISP account
So this project evolved over time,
starting life out as a simple terminal
program, and moving more towards a
text and html and html tag browser,
that uses more of today's TCP IP ISP
"Internet Service Provider". I
remember in 2000 Maurice recruited
many in the Commodore Community to
help with Beta testing Wave browser,
myself I don't know how Maurice
remembered everybody, but he did a
good job. Myself at the time was no
expert by any means so I did a lot of
learning myself, so this project was a
good teacher for me, so I really want
to thank Maurice for letting so many
of us beta test this wonderful
browser.
Wave finally started to work with
html, but to go to your own "text
based" or "html" websites you had to
know how to basically create an html
link, to do so you had to create this
in Geowrite and save that link. After
that was created then you could then
(in the browser) click on that html
link and go to that website. Remember
Wave 64 and Wave 128 up to this point
could only render or (display) PET
ascii, plain text, html, or html tags,
but "will not" display any kind of
graphics like: .gif, .jpg, .bmp, etc
You can display many of these graphics
offline, but there is currently no
graphics Engine for Wave browser.
Maurice eventually added TCP IP dialup
for Manual, & PAP authentication (for
the dialing process). And even down-
loading could be done Im not sure if
you can upload.
There was finally a public release:
The Wave V1.0 which has a full-blown
installer that will install Wheels.
After that up to this date was: The
Wave Beta2.9 which is another beta
version to try out, which was updated
from the Public release and will do
more cool things.
The Wave 64 is physically faster but
limited to 40 columns, so the text and
html will "word-wrap" and looks funny
on the screen. The Wave 128 works
"only" in 80 column mode, operates a
little slower, but is still fast
enough, but the resolution and display
is really good. The 80 columns of
course gives enough room on the screen
to display accurately, and no word-
wrapping like the 64 version does.
Maurice last I knew "used" to be
working on an upgrade to Wheels called
Wheels SC. The SC stands for "Super
CPU" and supports the Super CPU more
than the standard Wheels OS does, and
is supposed to do "primtive" Multi-
Tasking and more. But that was about 5
years ago before Maurice bought the CMD
line, which is a whole other subject.
Upgrading then from Geos to Wheels is
fairly simple and can use the older
applications etc, just better disk
drivers etc and the whole OS has
been made more user friendly with CMD
hardware in mind, you dont have to
tinker with the many "Configure"
patches Wheels already has the needed
"device drivers" built into the
Operating system. Maurice also to
write The Wave in 1999 created Concept
Plus which I commented on earlier,
mainly to create the whole Wave Browser
software. Myself we needed this "major
overhaul" of Geos 2.0 and Maurice made
this possible with Wheels OS and it has
been more fun to me since I have
upgraded from Geos 2.0. Which is how I
started late in 1992 when I first
discovered Geos 64 2.0, my how amazing
that was back then for the first time I
booted Geos, but fun to use. Good thing
I had the Geos 2.0 User Manual I would
have been lost without it.
Nigel I dont know how good of an
article this is but in my own words of
how to simple upgrade Geos 2.0 and
making the simply upgrade to Wheels OS.
I think it was early in 1998 when I
ordered Wheels 64 and then late in 2004
or so I finally did get Wheels 128, boy
was I impressed with the 80 column
support for Wheels.
There is the European Geos 2.0 upgrade
called MP3 64 or MP3 128, the original
programmer doesnt support this any
longer, but Werner Weicht and Colin
Thomson still support MP3(European Geos
2.0 upgrade).
I have tried out MP3, its a good
upgrade but I like Wheels better since
Im used to the simple way it works, MP3
takes some tinkering, which I have not
had the time to figure out, and I much
prefer Wheels anyway, but MP3 is a good
upgrade for the European Geos users. I
think Markus Kannet was the programmer
for this, but he moved on the using
Linux.
Thanks, -Terry/Raymon
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