Editing GEOS Tricks & Tips

'''''GEOS Tricks & Tips''''' is a book by M. Kerkloh and R. Tornsdorf, a Data Becker book published in English by Abacus Software, Grand Rapids, Michigan (first printing, September 1987; ISBN 0-916439-86-0). The cover describes it as "For all COMMODORE 64 owners who use GEOS" and says it includes Version 1.3.<ref name="b">M. Kerkloh and R. Tornsdorf, ''GEOS Tricks & Tips'', Abacus Software, 1987, ISBN 0-916439-86-0: cover, title and copyright pages, preface, contents (pp. iii–v). Hosted as [[:File:Abacus GEOS Tips and Tricks.pdf]]; the scan is from the retro-commodore.eu archive and has a text layer.</ref> The authors' initials appear the other way round on the companion volume, [[GEOS Inside and Out]].

In the preface the authors say they wrote it because much of the GEOS coverage in magazines was "nothing more than superficial repetitions of passages from the manual, or even half-truths or less".<ref name="b" /> The printed text runs to p. 265; the scan has 285 PDF pages, including Abacus advertising.<ref name="b" />

== Contents ==
From the book's contents pages:<ref name="b" />
# Tricks and Tips for the User Interface (p. 1): load and go, the deskTop, geoPaint, geoWrite.
# Programming Tricks (p. 29).
# Modifying GEOS (p. 63).
# New accessories for GEOS (p. 89), including the machine language monitor EDMON (p. 150) with its listing (p. 151) and command overview (p. 197).
# GEOS for the programmer (p. 205): GEOS routines, how GEOS works, the memory layout (p. 222), the GEOS jump table (p. 224) and the variables used by the GEOS KERNAL (p. 258).
* Appendix (p. 262) and index (p. 263).

It is a software book, with no Commodore hardware documentation.

== Related pages ==
* [[GEOS Inside and Out]]
* [[Commodore 64]]
* [[:Category:Commodore Books]]

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