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From: brown@aero.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: GEOS questions
Message-ID: <418@aero.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 12:19:52 EST
Article-I.D.: aero.418
Posted: Wed Apr 23 12:19:52 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Apr-86 00:55:03 EST
Reply-To: brown@aero.UUCP (Leonard Brown)
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Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Keywords: GEOS, Berkeley Softworks, mouse

I have been told that Berkeley Softworks, 2150 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA
94704, sells a program called GEOS that acts a little like the unnamed
operating system on the Macintosh.  In particular, it runs two programs
that look a lot like Paint and Write on that machine, and will run with a
mouse.  The guy who recommended I buy these likes them very much, and knows
enough about the 6502 chip not to expect Macintosh speed and precision from
them.  I have a couple of questions for anyone who is running these programs:

 1) What kind of copy protection is used?  Will I have to surrender my
   disk to get updates or repaired disks, or pay through the nose for a
   spare copy, or just sign an agreement not to copy?  The last is obviously
   preferable.

2) Will it work with a joystick instead of the mouse?  I understand that
   GEOS runs with a mouse that sticks in the joystick port, so would a
   joystick do as well, or at least work? 

3) Does the mouse come with the system, or is that a separate hardware
   purchase?

4)  I run a dot matrix printer with graphics capabilities, and drive it
   with the Cardco+G interface.  Will GEOS be able to drive this to create
   the graphics printout I want?

5) Is the paint program color, or does it do printable b/w only?  I was 
   considering buying Printshop, but for $30 more GEOS sounds like the
   way to go for Christmas cards, PR flyers, etc.

Thanks for any help.
-- 
Leonard Brown:  brown@aerospace.ARPA
                brown@aero.UUCP
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