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2008-08-04
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Originally Posted by CleverJake
It ran on anything from an 8086 upwards, 640 kb RAM required; CGA graphics minimum and hard drive.
http://www.vetusware.com/download/En...202.0/?id=3907
GeoWorks Ensemble v 2.0
Im having a hard time finding any spec sheet for this relase though
so I have no idea what the sys requirements are, but I did find this review from 1993
I tried it once on an XT with almost those specs (VGA instead of CGA), but it was no fun. I did run very smoothly on my first laptop (286, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB HDD, VGA mono lcd).
For me, the big problems were: No built in spreadsheet (Quattro Pro sort of semi-merged in) and no database whatsoever (I believe there was a later version with something added). Nice package, but without expandability we soon hit its ceiling.
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Watch out Nokia, Pandora's box has opened (sorta)...
I do love explaining cryptic sigs, but for the impatient: http://www.openpandora.org/
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2008-08-04
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
In French ? That must be the one I'd been using then :-)
I have a French version that I used for almost two years. I wouldn´t bet on the floppies being still readable though...
My first problem would be finding a working floppy reader to test them out...
At today´s standards, it´s rather pathetic; but at the time it delivered above par output (very nice printer drivers and a good selection of PostScript lookalike fonts -- albeit a few with visible hinting problems).
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2008-08-04
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
At that time I had a monster of a 386SX16 with a 17" monitor, a real luxury. geoworks ran fine on that, as did Desqview/X - everything but Windows, in fact :-)
It ran on anything from an 8086 upwards, 640 kb RAM required; CGA graphics minimum and hard drive.
I tried it once on an XT with almost those specs (VGA instead of CGA), but it was no fun. I did run very smoothly on my first laptop (286, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB HDD, VGA mono lcd).
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2008-08-06
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Wow, geoworks ensemble, I'll dig around and try to find my disks.
Btw, in case you aren't so old, geoworks started it's life as GEOS (graphical environment operating system) on the commodore 64 and 128 later. It was a pack in together with Quantum Link when the redesigned C=64c was introduced.
I'll try running GEOS under frodo and post some screencaps.
The 128 version worked in the VDC 80 column monitor with 640 x 200 resolution and 16 colors, not bad when PCs where doing CGA and EGA was just arriving.
Btw, in case you aren't so old, geoworks started it's life as GEOS (graphical environment operating system) on the commodore 64 and 128 later. It was a pack in together with Quantum Link when the redesigned C=64c was introduced.
I'll try running GEOS under frodo and post some screencaps.
The 128 version worked in the VDC 80 column monitor with 640 x 200 resolution and 16 colors, not bad when PCs where doing CGA and EGA was just arriving.
Oh, and it´s technically called "Geoworks Ensemble". I added Quattro Pro DOS later, because GWE was tweaked to play nice with that spreadsheet.
At today´s standards, it´s rather pathetic; but at the time it delivered above par output (very nice printer drivers and a good selection of PostScript lookalike fonts -- albeit a few with visible hinting problems).
Watch out Nokia, Pandora's box has opened (sorta)...
I do love explaining cryptic sigs, but for the impatient: http://www.openpandora.org/