Collette Utilities for GEOS and the Commodore 64, is likely one of the best collection of useful utility programs you'll find, all on one double sided floppy disk.  Each utility comes with full docs in geoWrite format.  Here's an overview:

• Font Editor 2.5 - create standard, MEGA and Perfect Print fonts
• Font Changer - change fonts and point sizes in geoWrite documents
• geoWizard - run one GEOS program without closing the one already in use
• geoWizDump - screen dumper for use with geoWizard
• MiniDesk - Desk Accessory (DA) for copying and deleting files
• Select Printer - Desk Accessory (DA) for changing printer drivers
• DOS_Wedge - Desk Accessory (DA) for sending commands to disk drives
• AutoAlbumAdd - Desk Accessory (DA) for eaiser handling of Photo Scraps
• PS. Processor - create customized PostScript output
• PS. Patch(disk) - patch geoPubLaser for disk output
• PS. Patch(GC) - patch geoPubLaser for geoCable output
• LaserWrtr 2.1 GC - geoCable version of LaserWriter Printer Driver

Bruce Thomas has come up with yet another excellent collection of GEOS programs!  The following is quoted from the text file included in the archive:

1988 GEOS Programming Contest

With a shout-out in the Editorial column and a double-page ad, The GEOS Programming Contest, sponsored by Berkeley Softworks (BSW) and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, sprang to life in the April 1988 COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazine. The contest promised "Over $25,000 in cash and prizes!"

There were four categories; Entertainment, Education, Productivity, and Open Programming, with three prizes under each sub-category of Application or Desk Accessory. The contest deadline for entries was August 31, 1988 and that may have been a bridge too far for many programmers as only 17 of the available 24 prizes were awarded when the winners were announced in the December 1988 Gazette.

While the rules, as printed in April, stated that entries would become the property of BSW, it was made clear that BSW, the Gazette, and Quantum Computer Services may distribute the entries as part of a "shareware" library. To that end, entrants were told to include "in" the program, "their name, address and a "user fee" amount for satisfied users to send a discretionary payment."

When the winners were announced it was noted that BSW "will put the cream of the crop onto a special shareware disk."

I've never seen such a disk.

I imagine most of the winning entries ended up on Q-Link but I was never on Q-Link. I got some of these from geoWorld and other members of our local User Group.

The only program I haven't been able to locate is Bingo by Robert Rosenbaum.

Otherwise, the rest, or newer versions, appear on this compilation disk. Where there were documentation files I've included those. Cluster Wars has Instructions built into the game but I always found I had trouble remembering the values of ships and other details so I grabbed all the scenario and instruction screens with geoWizDump and made a couple geoPaint files in order to print out the instructions. I've included those files on here as well.

enGEOy!
Bruce Thomas
December 2024

If anyone has the forementioned Bingo by Robert Rosenbaum, please contact us so we can complete the collection.

Compute!s Gazette Geos Collection is a disk packed with 13 programs written for the Commodore 64 and the GEOS operating system.  There is something for everyone, from games to powerful programming applications and disk utilities.  Included on the disk are:

• Skeet - Shotgun-and-clay-pigeon game
• Quick Clock - Handy desk accessory for displaying the time in large characters
• GeoPuzzle - A Rubick's Cube type multi-dimensional puzzle
• Help Pad - Helps you design your own custom pop-up help screens
• Screen Dumper - A machine language desk accessory for dumping the screen
• SlideShow - Build slideshow presentations with graphics from geoPaint, geoChart or any GEOS program capable of saving to photo scraps
• Super Printer Driver - Near-laser-quality printouts for several popular dot matrix printers
• File Converter - Convert non-GEOS files to GEOS format with a simple double-click 
• WordCount - Utility for geoWrite 1.2, 1.3 or 2.0 
• Directory Printer - Creates complete printouts of GEOS disk directories
• File Retriever - Lets you recover GEOS or Commodore files that have been deleted or thrown in the trash basket

Dick Estel's Best GEOS Utilities (some updated versions plus a few extras.)

Dick Estel lives in California and has been a member of the Fresno Commodore User Group since 1988. Dick used GEOS to produce a newsletter for the club and was an avid collector of GEOS fonts, which he started cataloging in June 1989. To help cover his costs he decided to offer his Font Catalog for sale. Over time the product morphed into the Font Resource Directory which grew to over 500 pages. He produced the Fontastic Newsletter and also wrote for a few small publications such as the geoMetrix geoJournal.

Dick began offering his GEOS Font collection on disks and then started offering scanned graphics (Handyscanner), Calendar disks, other graphics, and five double-sided GEOS Utility disks.

Most of this material is available on the geoSpecific CD which can be found on Glenn Holmer's website (lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/geos).

One disk that is not on the CD is this one - Dick's Best GEOS Utilities. On here you will find a distilled collection from the five Utility Disks previously mentioned.

enGEOy!
Bruce Thomas
November 2024

** Thank you Bruce for this awesome collection! See the extended description for details on all the programs included.

geoNEWS Issue 13 (September 1992) - Supplement Disk by Digi-Clips.

This is a double sided disk with some really great Clipart on Side B as you can see from the screen shots, but side A contains a super cool feature you can add to your GEOS startup that will play .RAW sound clips during boot-up of GEOS.  There are many sample clips to choose from along with the AutoRAW GEOS program to play the sounds.  In addition to that, there is also two versions of DigiPlayer that you can use to check out .RAW files without needing to boot into GEOS.  But that's not all, there is also a program called "RawToGEOS" included that lets you convert your own sound clips into .RAW files.  Complete documentation is included for the various programs on the disk.

Big thanks to Bruce Thomas for sharing this unique GEOS treasure. 

GeoPower Tools by Loadstar and Softdisk is a 2-disk collection of great GEOS programs, utilities, clipart and fonts (each with a geoWrite 1.1 docs file) for the Commodore 64 (running the GEOS operating system) including:

AutoBootCreator, B82GeoPaint, CalendarPrinter, DirAid, FastAmi, FFTB, Font Converter, GeoFetch, GeoLibrarian,GeoPaint Viewer, GeoReplication, GeoSID 2.0, GeoCO2, Geo File Info, GeoPixelPuzzle, InspectorDiskette, Pheonix, ProgrammersCalc, ScreenDump, ShapeThatBaby, Sector Editor and two large photo albums of clipart and the following fonts - Stencil, Elite, Hollow, Cut, Squat, Digital, SpaceBalls, Pica, Magnetic, Rune, Thin, Inflated, HMag, Roman, Gothic and Shaded.

See the extended description for further information on each of the programs.

A disk with drivers and programs I mentioned in TPUG Magazine #26 to be released at World of Commodore 2025, Dec. 6-7, 2025

Bruce Thomas has found another amazing collection of GEOS programs consisting of three .D81 disk images of software that Jane M. Voskamp-Jones wrote about in her GEOS Genie column in various publications.  The following is quoted from Bruce:

Jane M. Voskamp-Jones was one of the biggest advocates of GEOS on Commodore 8-bit computers. In nearly 20 years she did an excellent job reviewing GEOS software and recommending programs that improved the functionality of the operating system.

GenieDisk1.D81 contains the PD GEOS Software that Jane reviewed in her GEOS Genie column in the Australian Commodore Network magazine from July 1994 to January 1996.

GenieDisk2.D81 contains the PD GEOS Software that Jane reviewed in her GEOS Genie column in the Australian Commodore Network magazine from February 1996 to May 1996 plus The Australian GEOS Genie columns that were published in the geoNEWS newsletter of the British geoClub from June 1998 to December 1998.

GenieDisk3.D81 contains the PD GEOS Software that Jane reviewed in her GEOS Genie column in the Commodore Mailink, newsletter of the Meeting 64/128 Users Through The Mail user group, from May 2006 to October 2012.

The software on this three disk set represents only a small portion of the GEOS writing that Jane did, but they are all that I can locate at the moment. Each disk has a geoWrite and a geoCalc file listing the publications, issues, plus reviewed software. A geoList file also itemizes the files on each disk.

All of the above publications can be found on the Bombjack site. Some of the newsletters of other groups do not appear to be archived anywhere.

Jane passed away in 2018.

In the ReadMeetJane file on each disk I let Jane introduce herself via Introductory columns she wrote for the geoNEWS in 1993 and Mailink in 2006.

enGEOy!
Bruce Thomas
December 2024

Thank you Bruce for all you have done for the Commodore community over the years to collect and organize such an important part of Commodore history.

The geoSpecific PD/Shareware Collection V1.6 was created in 2004 and originally sold on CD.

In 2014, at the request of Glenn Holmer, the Collection became available for download on the lyonlabs.org web site where it resided until November 2025.

Holmer, owner of the lyonlabs web site, said about the geoSpecific CD “This is the ultimate GEOS collection”.

The zip file here is about 46 MB in size. It should extract to about 86 MB in size and doesn't have to be put on a CD.

There are over 270 disk images in the Collection and over 700 PDF pages of information (most in the Dick Estel Font Resource Directory folder).

You will find lots of wonderful software here which will surely increase your enGEOyment of using GEOS.

RBT - December 2025

Homepak 10 is another nice collection of GEOS programs for the Commodore 64, that I found in the LLCUG user group collection.  Still not sure if this was some type of official distribution, or just a collection put together by the user group.  Anyway, here is what you'll find on the disk:

• geoWAR v1.0 - A game of world domination (AKA Risk).
• MusicBox v1.0 - Pretty cool graphical sound generator.
• GetDirectory v1.2 - Get a "Directory" into a geoWrite text scrap file.
• WringisWrite v6.0 - Convert various geoWrite versions amongst each other.
• IconEdit v2.0 - Change the appearance of a file's icon.
• AnalogClock v1.2 - An analog clock that ticks and chimes.
• AnalogClock v1.0 - A program that displays the system time in analog format.
• GeoDirPrint v1.0 - Print a disk directory.
• ScrapPeek v2.2 - Peek into your photo scraps and albums.  Supports two drives.
• Trashpicker 64 v1.0 - Lets you recover a deleted file.
• Graphic Storm v1.0 - Import several standard graphic file formats into geoPaint / photo album.
• MacAttack v2.3 - Convert MacPaint files to geoPaint with centering and color options.
• QuickView v1.0 - Does a sequential listing of a geoWrite file to the screen.
• Envelope Addresser - Print addresses on business and personal size envelopes.

Homepak 9 for the GEOS operating system on the Commodore 64 is a collection of GEOS programs I found in the LLCUG user group collection.  There are other Homepak disks, so I'm not sure if this was an official distribution, or just something put together by the user group.  Included in the collection:

• US - The "Ultimate Stage" animation program.
• Culture - A desk accessory version of the classic "Life" routine.
• Copy Editor - Indexes a document to find word and sentenct counts.
• Cluster Wars v1.1 - Another bloody control-the-universe strategy game.
• QwikTop v2.0 - Replacement deskTop for GEOS
• Convert v2.0 - Converts GEOS files to Commodore SEQ and back.
• Font Editor 2.2 - Edit existing fonts or create new ones.
• geoGraph - Create line graphs

Loadstar GEOS Apps 1 is a collection of games and applications for use with the Commodore 64 / 128 and the GEOS operating system.  Included on the disk are:

• GeoSID v1.0 by Scott E. Resh (10/21/86)
• GeoFetch v1.0 by Scott E. Resh (9/3/89)
• GeoPuzzler v1.0 by Scott E. Resh (10/21/86)
• GeoKey v1.0 by Scott E. Resh (2/11/90)
• Mind v1.0 by Sean Huxter (2/28/91)
• Hazard v1.0 by Sean Huxter (11/22/91)
• Post Notions (a photo album) by John Elliott (7/25/91)

I will post each of the applications and games seperately in the future with more screenshots. There is a printout of the photo album as a screenshot when you view the detailed description.

Son of GEOS is a collection of handy applications, utilities and fonts for GEOS on the Commodore 64.  I found this disk in the Lane County User Group collection, but was unable to locate any information on whether this was an official distribution or just something a user put together.  There is a also a disk called "Son of GEOS 2" I will post soon.   

• LASERMATRIX Editor v1.0 by Bill Pendergast - Reconfigure a LASERMATRIX driver for another printer.
• Photo Print v1.1 by Dave Hunt - Prints photo albums in neat order and will number them.
• Qwik Top v2.1 by John F. Howard - Replacement for the GEOS deskTop
• Convert v3.0 - Convert GEOS files to Commodore SEQ and back.
• WormDesk v4.0 by Payton Snider - Replacement for the GEOS deskTop.
• GEOMATH by Richard & Lynn Rardin - Math tutor for GEOS.
• IdentiFont v3.2 by Dennis N. Seitz - Identify fonts contained in geoWrite documents or on disk.
• Custom Print v1.0 by Terry Van Camp - Customize "Text Print" accessory to recognize your printer's commands.
• Text Print v1.0 by Terry Van Camp - A desktop accessory to print geoWrite v2.1 documents using your printers resident fonts.
• Paint Scrap v1.0 by Dennis N. Seitz - Place an entire geoPaint page in a photo scrap.
• BigClipper v2.1 by Nick Vrtis - A program to make big clippings from a geoPaint picture.
• Several Fonts - Dingbats, Graffiti24, Gallia, Gallery, Futhark Runes, Scribble, DigiFont

Son of GEOS 2 - Found this collection of Commodore 64 GEOS utilities in the Lane County User Group collection.

• UN-GEOS v1.0 by Master Blaster - Converts a GEOS disk back to a regular disk.
• Disk Repair v1.1 - View the BAM, repair damage to OPD block, write protect / un-write protect disk.
• GeoView v1.1 by Stephen R. Bassler - View, scroll and print your geoPaint pictures in full screen mode.
• Selector v1.0 by John L. Brown - Selector is a fast and easy way to change drivers from within GEOS-64 applications.
• ADDmerge v1.0 by Frank Schroeder - Combines a series of short geoMerge files into one geoWrite document.
• Appending - geoWrite document explaining how to merge two or more geoWrite files.
• Combiner v1.0 by Nick Vrtis - Combine multiple geoWrite documents into one.
• Retriever v2.0 by Ed Flinn - Retrieve photo scraps from geoWrite, geoFile and geoPublish documents.
• Springboard by Jim Holloway - Takes geoWrite files and assembles them into GEOS applications.
• GeoList v2.0 by John F. Howard - List a disk directory to printer or disk file.
• Blackout v3.0 by Jim Holloway - Use BLACKOUT to keep screen images from being burned into your monitor.
• FFTB (Fast Format That Baby) v1.0 by Scott E. Resh - Nice disk utility that formats a disk I'd imagine.
• geoSidPlayer v1.0 by Roger L. Lawhorn - Play SidPlayer .mus files from GEOS.
• PS Patcher v2.0 by Jim Collette - Patches GEOLASER & GEOPUBLASER to save PostScript files to disk.
• Q/SGL.PRTv2 by Terry Mills - Quad density driver for Epson FX-80 and compatibles.
• Q/DBL.PRTv2 by Terry Mills - Quad density double printing driver for Epson FX-80 and compatibles.
• EPSON DBL.PRT v2.0 by Terry Mills - Modified FX-80 drivers prints 2 passes per line for NLQ effects in all fonts.
• MegaFont Fix v1.2 by John P. Dalbec - No description.
• Fonts - RonsWriter 1.2,  17 cpi (emulates condensed font of printer - 17 characters per inch

Bruce Thomas sent over this amazing collection of GEOS programs compiled on two .d81 disk images.  This information accompanied the disk images:

In his January 1994 GEOS Column in COMPUTE!'s Gazette Disk Magazine, Steve Vander Ark wrote that his editor requested that he "put together a disk of the best GEOS shareware" that he had mentioned in his column over the previous two years.

The rest of that column was spent detailing Steve's search for those files after a thunderstorm wiped out his RAMLink contents. To the best of my knowledge Steve never did create that compilation disk before the Gazette shut down with the February 1995 issue.

So, here are two .D81 images containing the GEOS software Steve had written about. Each disk has a ReadMe geoWrite file with some more detail than this note, a geoCalc file listing the software that was discussed each month and where to find it if it isn't on these disks, and a geoList file cataloging the disk.

enGEOy!
Bruce Thomas
December 2024