This is a collection of 111 Commodore 64\/128 disk images from a box of CMD FD-2000 high-density floppy disks. The disks came from the estate of Klaus Finke (1945\u20132016), a GEOS community organizer from Suhl, Thuringia.<\/p>\n
Klaus Finke was born on January 16, 1945 and died on May 4, 2016<\/a>. He ran the C 64 & C 128 GEOS Club Regio Th\u00fcringen from his home in Suhl, organizing annual GEOS user meetings<\/a>. He was part of GIG-S\u00fcd e.V. (GEOS Interessengemeinschaft S\u00fcd), a registered association of GEOS enthusiasts in southern Germany. In the community, he was known as “Klaus – der Suhler.”<\/p>\n The CMD FD-2000 is a high-density floppy drive for the Commodore 64\/128, storing 1.6 MB per disk in its native mode \u2014 more than nine times the capacity of a 1541. It was expensive and rare; far fewer were sold than the ubiquitous 1541. The drive also read standard 1581 disks (800 KB), which is why this collection contains both D2M and D81 images.<\/p>\n The 111 disks span the full GEOS ecosystem:<\/p>\n GEOS System and Desktop<\/strong> (16 disks) \u2014 GEOS 128 V1.00 CMD edition boot disks, Gateway 128 boot disks, the Wheels upgrade, TopDesk V1.2\/V3.2\/V3.11 desktop replacements, and five Gateway distribution disks with Paint128, Write128, Calc128, geoFile128, and the GeoWorld public domain collection.<\/p>\n GEOS Applications<\/strong> (65 disks) \u2014 The bulk of the collection. geoWrite, geoPaint, geoCalc, geoPublish, GeoConvert, font editors, photo albums, games, desk accessories, a BTX (Bildschirmtext) terminal for C64\/128, German translations of English documentation, and the GEOS-Kurier 11\/92 disk newsletter.<\/p>\n CMD Utilities<\/strong> (11 disks) \u2014 V-FCOPY, CMD MOVE, RAMLink tools, HD partition managers, and HD service tools.<\/p>\n Terminal and Communications<\/strong> (4 disks) \u2014 NovaTerm 9.5, NovaTerm 9.6c, NovaSwift 9.5, and GeoTerm configuration.<\/p>\n GO64! Magazine<\/strong> (9 disks) \u2014 German magazine cover disks from 2001 through 2004 in D2M format.<\/p>\n CBM Programming<\/strong> (6 disks) \u2014 An LHarc C source port, Graphic Booster, FD-COPY, and assorted collections.<\/p>\n This is a snapshot of how a dedicated GEOS user actually worked in the late 1990s and early 2000s \u2014 with a CMD FD-2000 high-density drive and a RAMLink. The disks are a mix of applications, clip art, scanned images, fonts, geoWrite documents, geoPublish layouts, and German translations, some created by Klaus himself, others circulated among GEOS enthusiasts. It’s a view into a community that was still actively using and developing for the C64\/128 platform well into the 2000s.<\/p>\n Every file on every disk is listed with GEOS file icons, metadata, and inline previews \u2014 geoPaint images as PNG, geoWrite documents rendered as HTML, and font specimens as PNG glyph sheets. Individual files are extracted as GEOS CVT, PRG, or SEQ and are directly downloadable. Personal files have been removed from the collection and are shown as greyed out directory entries.<\/p>\n \u2192 Klaus Finke’s Commodore 64\/128 GEOS Disk Collection<\/a\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a collection of 111 Commodore 64\/128 disk images from a box of CMD FD-2000 high-density floppy disks. The disks came from the estate of Klaus Finke (1945\u20132016), a GEOS community organizer from Suhl, Thuringia. Klaus Finke Klaus Finke was born on January 16, 1945 and died on May 4, 2016. 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