GEOWORKS (was Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software)

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:18:37 -0800
Eric J Korpela <korpela at ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Speaking of Geoworks, anyone have a copy of the rare 8088 devkit
> for GEOS? IMHO, it's lack of wide distribution of a devkit that
> killed GEOS the deadest.  That and flying toasters.... I
> probably would have used it for my main desktop if I could have
> coded for it....
> 
> I'm also looking for a copy of the devkit for Windows 1.0X. 
> Being able to code for Windows 1 would kick a**.
> 

ICK!  Have you ever run Windows 1 for any productive purpose?

Being able to code for DOS 1.0 is more useful (I have the 1.0
BASIC and PASCAL compilers, and the early Aztec C compilers.) 
Really, you can't run most Windows 1.x or 2.x apps on anything but
Windows 1.x or 2.x.

You might as well be developing TopView-friendly applications.

> Eric
> 
> On 12/12/05, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
> >
> > Allison wrote:
> >
> 
> > If you used Geoworks, or
> > Ghostscript (I used a retail package called "GOSCRIPT"), or
> > Win 3.1, you could
> > use any font you want and the print subsystem would just
> > rasterize it as graphics.
> > --
> > Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org)
> > http://www.oldskool.org/
> > Want to help an ambitious games project?
> > http://www.mobygames.com/
> > Or check out some trippy MindCandy at
> > http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
> >