Your new Graphic Environment Operating System (GEOS) ushers in a whole new world for your Commodore 64, 64c, or 128. GEOS brings you the power and ease that icons, windows, and pull-down menus provide. A simple keyboard command or click of your input device is all it takes to get the job done.
This manual is divided into 12 chapters:
1: Getting Started guides you through the initial process of installing GEOS, creating backup copies of your GEOS disks, booting GEOS, and exiting GEOS. Also included is general advice on using work disks.
2: Learning GEOS introduces you to some basic techniques necessary to manage GEOS applications and move around the system. A tutorial is provided to give you some hands-on experience; you will find that learning GEOS is fun and easy.
3: The GEOS deskTop describes in detail how you can move around GEOS, manage files, desk accessories, and applications, and use one to three disk drives. The GEOS deskTop has been upgraded to enable multiple file selection, file retrieval from the waste basket, more keyboard shortcuts, easier printer and input device default procedures, the ability to add or delete disk note pad pages, the use of a deskTop clock, and more.
4: geoPaint is a powerful color graphics program that enables you to create graphics in a wide variety of ways. geoPaint has been enhanced to include bitmap scaling, a grid, and special commands to create images precisely on the screen.
5: geoWrite 2.1 is an enhanced version of the easy-to-use “what you see is what you get” GEOS word processor.
6: geoSpell is a powerful spell-checking program that enables you to create and alter personal dictionaries.
7: geoMerge is a mail merge program that enables you to combine data from two documents to produce a customized form letters and mailing labels.
8: geoLaser is an application that enables you to print geoWrite and geoPaint documents on the Apple LaserWriter printer.
9: Text Grabber is an application that reads non-GEOS files from supported word processors and converts them to geoWrite format.
10: Paint Drivers is an application that creates one or more geoPaint documents from a geoWrite or geoPublish document. Once converted, the new document or series of documents can be enhanced with geoPaint” s graphic tools.
11: Desk Accessories are smaller applications that perform handy functions while on the deskTop or in an application. These accessories include the Alarm Clock, Calculator, Note Pad, Photo Manager, Text Manager, and Preference Manager. The Photo Manager and Text Manager have been enhanced to enable you to name, search for, and rename the pages of a photo album or text album. A new desk accessory, the Pad Color Manager, enables you to color file icons and the disk note pad on the deskTop.
12: Appendices include a glossary, listing of the options in all command menus, font samples, a detailed listing of the contents of each disk in your GEOS 2.0 package, and instructions for running the GEOS demonstration programs.
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