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Quote from: OzOneIn one of the other threads there was some talk around games for Basic 8, I tracked down one(!) that I had on an old disk and just uploaded it to the games section of the downloads.Ooo, a Basic 8 game! Never heard of that one;I'll try it out.
It's called TOWER.SDA & only works on a 64k VDC.
Oz
Quote from: xlar54GEOS doesnt automatically detect drives (well, sort of...)Yeah, one of the bugs of GEOS is that is loses (forgets) what extra active drives it has. Most annoying when you have Drive 9 disappearing. Wheels clears up this bug entirely.
Quote from: xlar54Lets talk this. Was GEOS 128 too late?GEOS 128 was not really late, as it came at the same time or soon after GEOS 64.
Quote from: xlar54Sad that they didnt include better support for harddrives right off the bat (at least I dont think they did).Hard drives were very expensive in the mid-1980's. Back then, an advanced set-up would consist of a second disk drive and a RAM expansion.
Quote from: xlar54Whats your thoughts on GEOS? Some hated it, some loved it.I never like GEOS until I got Wheels. Wheels clears up or smooths over many of the bugs of GEOS.
Quote from: xlar54Ive never tried Wheels (Im SuperCPU impaired)...A common misconception. The minimum requirements are an original GEOS boot disk (for the key during installation and then the disk is not needed after that), one disk drive, and RAM expansion. Of course, the more C= goodies, the more Wheels can fly.
Quote from: xlar54...but I hear it's really what GEOS was meant to be.Consider Wheels to be a really big upgrade to GEOS. In fact, Wheels is a different o.s. which uses GEOS applications.
Quote from: xlar54> I wonder what would have happened to Commodore in general if they had come up with a harddrive for the 8-bits...Commodore did have hard drives for their 8-bits; those would be the CBM hard drives for the PET/B128 line of computers. Those drives were interfaceable to a C64/128 via IEEE adapters such as Quicksilver 128.
Quote from: xlar54What do you use your 128 for these days?Mostly for going on-line with Desterm 2.01, a 56K modem, and a Turbo232. Secondly, for writing C= articles for our newsletter and to be published on-line.
Quote from: xlar54I dont know if it has any games with the distribution, but I think it does come with Spectrum 128...or else Spectrum 128 was written with it. Its an 80 column paint program. And I also think there was a front end GUI file manager that was done in B8 that was kind of cool.I've had Basic 8 since the 1980's, and I've never found a game for it. Of course, that doesn't prevent anyone for writing one for it. Paint 128 was the paint program that came with the Basic 8 release. Sketchpad 128 and Spectrum 128 were two different yet similar paint programs that were commercially released later. The Basic 8 desktop, though interesting, was slow and didn't do much (again someone could rewrite it to make it more useful).
Quote from: HidekiAhh, replied there, but I just noticed you mention you're using the C128DCR, it is the standalone 1571 ROM you have and not the one from the drive in the C128DCR aye?I use a C128DCR on-line, but we have the upgrade ROM for the separate, standalone 1571.
Quote from: HersheyI have Basic 8 on disk as well as sketchpad 128 and the other one (can not think of name right now).Would that be Spectrum 128?
Quote from: HidekiHihiI have the upgrade ROM for the 1571.
If anyone has a DOS ROM from the old 1571 (or the drive in the plastic 128D) I could do with one since mine thinks it's a 1570 right now
