How do I use .D64 disk images? Trying to get GEOS started in emulator
How do I use .D64 disk images? Trying to get GEOS started in emulator
Right now, the state of GEOS is... back-burner.
The last version of the emulator that would come close to running GEOS, and would give you a 'deskTop' screen complete with a show of icons, was R38. The quick screencap shown in 8BG's video was done that way (I know because I made the screencap). Later releases don't get to that point.
And even then, using R38, the applications don't work. You might occasionally get to the 'Create/Open/Quit' screen that most GEOS apps use when they start. But that's usually as far as you can get.
How to do even that much requires that you go find an archive of the original GEOS disks in D64 format, and use the APPS64.D64 file.
The official emulator has a secret trick up its sleeve. Instead of an SD card image, you can specify a D64 file on the command line: x16emu -sdcard APPS64.D64
Once you've started the emulator that way, and gotten to the READY. prompt, then just type the command GEOS and it will load the deskTop from the disk image and you can try it out.
How do I use .D64 disk images? Trying to get GEOS started in emulator
TY for the update.
How do I use .D64 disk images? Trying to get GEOS started in emulator
On 10/13/2022 at 1:35 PM, Iegen said:
I know this thread has been inactive for a while, however like the OP said I'm trying to get GEOS to run on the X16 using the BASIC command GEOS. I have D81 and D64 versions of GEOS that run on the C64. I have tried to copy the files to a VHD drive as suggested above. My question is the original D64/D81 files have USR and PRG files. When you extract the files using c1541 from VICE using the extract or geoextract commands you lose the USR type files because when you copy the files to the VHD, they all have the PRG extension. On another point, the memory maps between the C64 and X16 are different, so running the boot loader from the disk probably won't work ... am I correct on that point?
Thank you in Advance for your suggestions/advice.
Try DirMaster by Style.
https://style64.org/dirmaster
That is the best D64 editor I've found, so far.
As to the names being different... you can just rename them, but you may actually need to remove the extensions entirely... so "foo.prg" just becomes "foo". I'd try variations on that and see what works.