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Post by PsychDoc on Dec 8, 2004 10:57:24 GMT -5
I just bought another one to hack. (I'm a compulsive collector, I guess, and want to keep an untouched one for posterity.) Anyway, I was a was a "GeoRep" (a customer service hack) on Q-Link for Berkeley Softworks GEOS back in the day, and I feel the urge to get GEOS up and running on the little joystick. Could someone who's interfaced a 1541 and who happens to have a GEOS loader disk try to load it and let me know here if it's possible? Interestingly, Maurice Randall (who now owns the copyright to the Commodore [only] version of GEOS), has released it into the public domain. Here's his download page: usa.cmdrkey.com/cbm/geos/geos1.htmlSide issue: Navigating GEOS with a joystick worked but wasn't always effortless. I wonder if it's possible to put a mouse on the DTV?
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Post by RaymondDay on Dec 8, 2004 11:39:52 GMT -5
I found my old GEOS 64 boot disk. It loads to the disk top and looks like it works. But I can't move the pointer. I can press the number keys to go to other page's on the desk top. Looks like the joy stick is maped in port 2 on the DTV and Geos only looks at joy stick in port 1. I don't know how to change it.
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Post by PsychDoc on Dec 28, 2004 12:01:49 GMT -5
Raymond, sorry for the belated response, and thanks for trying this! I wish we could figure out how to enable the mouse...
Commodorekey-I brings up the input selection (mouse, joystick etc.) dialog box within GEOS. I wonder if one of the other choices would enable the 64DTV joystick?
Best, Randy
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Ancher
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Martin Ancher Holm
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Post by Ancher on Jan 1, 2005 12:37:43 GMT -5
Looks like the joy stick is maped in port 2 on the DTV and Geos only looks at joy stick in port 1. I don't know how to change it. I remember I had downloaded a driver for joystick or mouse in port 2, so I didn't have to change port the joystick. It must be online some place.
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CIP
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Post by CIP on Feb 21, 2005 4:33:35 GMT -5
Hi,
You can run GEOS on the DTV. This how you can do it.
The joystick port has to be swapped from $dc01 to $dc00. Take a diskmonitor tool that can search for bytes. For example: Disk Tool V6.5 by Klaus Raczek (Funnet)
Search for the bytes 01 DC
There will be more than 1 result, look at the sector and look if there is a combo of 00 DC before it, then you will have the right one. On the CMD disk you can download it is on Track 5 Sector 11 Position 234. After you find it change the 01 DC in 00 DC and save the sector.
You need and emulator or an real C64 because a hacked DTV will have problems with F7 and you need this in Disk Tool V6.5
Boot GEOS and you are ready. If the mouse is installed as the main driver you have to change that to joystick C= + I for the input menu, CRSR to select joystick RETURN to confirm.
I'm going to try this trick on other programs too.
Greetings Richard
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