GUI64 does not use the VIC-II’s bitmap graphics mode, but operates in text mode. GUI64 is therefore character set–based... Strictly speaking, GUI64 should therefore be considered not a GUI, but a TUI (Text User Interface).
Currently, there are no applications for GUI64.
So, it is a file manager, inferior to an orthodox file manager. It supports the mouse, and it can launch BASIC. If you like your KERNAL ROM, you can keep your KERNAL ROM.
I never ran GEOS. I saw it advertised, and it seemed fascinating, but perhaps "too early". I had become fluent in BASIC and proficient at the command line. I could decipher the DOS commands and device IDs. For me, time spent on the Commodore 64 was programming, or in a game or application, rather than pushing files/objects around on the desktop.
How much memory will be free for apps ?
Too bad it's not open source.
("NC" creative commons)
Limitations:
So, it is a file manager, inferior to an orthodox file manager. It supports the mouse, and it can launch BASIC. If you like your KERNAL ROM, you can keep your KERNAL ROM.I never ran GEOS. I saw it advertised, and it seemed fascinating, but perhaps "too early". I had become fluent in BASIC and proficient at the command line. I could decipher the DOS commands and device IDs. For me, time spent on the Commodore 64 was programming, or in a game or application, rather than pushing files/objects around on the desktop.
One word: GEOS
GEOS comes with its own ROM and bypasses the Commodore 64 "Kernal". This one is a GUI that runs on existing ROM.
ContikiOS!