Posted By
orion70
on 2021-08-26
09:48:05
|  Re: Apart of new clean and bigger scans...
Hi all, and thanks (as usual) for bringing forward the great Plus/4 machine.
Upping this old thread, because I recently stumbled upon the GEOS for P/4 in your website. I don't fiddle much with this computer, being mostly a VIC enthusiast.
I really can't get the whole picture. Many questions rise:
1) The GEOS M&T English version (3.5) is downloadable from plus4world, but I can't get it to work, neither on the VICE emu, nor on a real machine with SD2IEC. Do I understand right that it may be due to P/4 GEOS working only with a real 1551 drive?
2) How the freely available download connects with the SVS/JamesC agreement that one has to provide a picture of his C64 GEOS diskette before have his (electronically marked?) copy of P/4 GEOS? Maybe this is an "authorized" copy which possibly runs flawlessly even on a SD2IEC or an emulated Plus/4?
3) [In case the answers to previous points are affirmative] - How could it be that no one was able to convert GEOS to a fully usable, SD2IEC compatible version for the Commodore Plus/4, much in the fashion of the ones available for the 64 (e.g. https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/geos/index.html - even in a great D81 including all main apps)? Do the M&T disk(s) present with particular technical issues preventing a full conversion?
Sorry for being a complete noob in this, but I dusted off my old Plus/4 recently, and would really LOVE to see the GEOS on the screen 
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