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GEOS For the Commodore 64
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An included demo disk illustrates and demonstrates some of the applications
for GEOS.
Among other applications for GEOS is GeoPublish, another WYSIWYG word
processor but also combines drawing abilities.
There are also a large number of games that are designed to run inside
the GEOS environment.
Uh, whoops. I was messing around doing some stuff I shouldn't and I
made it crash. Apparently some types of system errors can be detected and
handled in the GUI.
Finally, I found this quite interesting. This version of GEOS is bundled
with an on-line communication program for a service called Quantum Link.
Quantum Link was a very popular on-line service specifically for Commodore
64 computers. Quantum Link opened in November 1985, eventually created
spin off services for other platforms such as PC-Link, and eventually grew
in to what we now know as America Online.
Quantum Link featured interactive chat, online games, an online store,
and, of course, news.
The Commodore 64 specific Q-Link service remained popular for a long
time and continued until November 1994 when it was shut down by AOL in
favor of newer platforms. Many Quantum Link customers switched to the AOL
service on a PC or Mac, but the AOL client was not available for the Commodore
64.
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