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In 1986, Berkeley Softworks - later known as GeoWorks - released GEOS, the graphical operating system known to pretty much everyone, who owned a C64/128.
The history of GEOS, the Graphic Environment Operating System, is wild. At its best, the OS for the Commodore machines was the third most popular operating system behind MS-DOS and MacOS.
Interestingly (but also absolutely logically) there was a port for the Commodore +4 and in 1988 a port for the Apple ][ series, attempting to outrun Apples own OS. There are no other ports.
Ah, wait. Maciej Witkowiak aka @ytmtym proved us wrong this week. 36 years after the initial release, here we go:
The history of this port reads interesting. Already some years ago Michael Steil had prepared sources from a previous reverse engineering attempt for the CA65 Macro Assembler, now Maciej has made the necessary adjustments, to get the system running on his Atari 65XE.
Exciting thing this. If you live on the ATARI side of the river. 🟥
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