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.[1] The book's title is Tricks & Tips; the page title reverses it. 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".[1] The printed text runs to p. 265; the scan has 285 PDF pages, including Abacus advertising.[1]
Contents
From the book's contents pages:[1]
- 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
Download: Abacus_GEOS_Tips_and_Tricks.pdf
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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.