I made a flier for a business using geowrite on my c64 for $15 in I guess around 1991. It was the first money I ever made using a computer. As a apx 10 year old it really lit a fire under me.<p>As a suffering 41 year old doing a bootstrapped startup I'm starting to wonder how far I've come. I could do with $15 right now
That's fascinating, is there other work like this for an app like in this case, rather than a game or OS/ROM code? The github page describes geoWrite 2.1 as having 'just 35 KB of binary code' but that is a big ball of 6502 yarn to unravel.
geoWrite might have the most used/best application in GEOS but geoPublish blew my mind.<p>Even with a 8 pin Epson MX clone dot matrix printer (eventually upgraded to a 24 pin printer) being able to do multi-column layouts with some clipart was incredible.