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Some time ago, a friend of mine mentioned that he’d gotten hooked on the classic Minesweeper game. That reminded me that I wrote a clone of that game for the Commodore-64/128 home computer. My version ran under the GEOS operating system and was called GeoMines. I fired up my C-128 and shot a couple photos of the screens to share.
This is a photo of the GEOS desktop which shows off the custom GeoMines icon. There are two other games that I wrote on this desktop page, GeoMille and ScoreUP. I’ve posted screen shots of them before.
It may not look like much, but remember, the Commodore-64 only had 64K of memory and a bunch of that was taken up by the operating system. And if the graphics appear more than a little blocky, the resolution of the VIC II graphic chip is only 320 x 200 pixels and 16 colors.
This is a photo of the GEOS desktop which shows off the custom GeoMines icon. There are two other games that I wrote on this desktop page, GeoMille and ScoreUP. I’ve posted screen shots of them before.
It may not look like much, but remember, the Commodore-64 only had 64K of memory and a bunch of that was taken up by the operating system. And if the graphics appear more than a little blocky, the resolution of the VIC II graphic chip is only 320 x 200 pixels and 16 colors.
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Knowing a little more about the history of computers its impressive but not the first GUI that was done at Xerox Parc and influenced so many others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) GUI around 1973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) GUI around 1973
My first home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. It had an interface cable that let you use an ordinary audio cassette recorder. In contrast, the Commodore used a cassette drive with a proprietary interface. The TI had an external expansion cabinet that could hold a couple of floppy drives (don't recall if a hard drive was an option) and a 300 baud modem. I never had any of that. The expansion cabinet cost well over $300, more than the computer itself.
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