Earth Orbit Station

[swordfish1030]

I have an origional copy of Earth Orbit Station by Electronic Arts, It has 2 disks. As usual with EOA games it starts to load and
then hangs at the EOA screen. Any thoughts? Perhaps copying it and then trying a parameter patch??? of course I would need to find
the parameter to patch it.. but that is a different story.

thanks!

[Mark Smith]

Well if it's an origininal clean copy then make sure you get a in image of it done and uploaded somewhere safe .. originals are starting to rot away now :-(

Mark

[hydrophilic]

If you can't find a patch, you can send me a copy and I'll crack it for you.  If its like most EA titles, the protection is quite lame.

[Golan Klinger]

If you can't find a patch, you can send me a copy and I'll crack it for you.  If its like most EA titles, the protection is quite lame.

Agreed.

swordfish1030: If you go this route, make sure you make g64 images -- not d64 ones.

[swordfish1030]

Not sure what I did, but I tried loading EOS again and it now works!!! ( it is an origional EOA copy )

[hydrophilic]

Glad to hear it works now.  While it's working, make a backup!  No telling how long it will last.

Even if the back-up won't run because of copy-protection, it should still be possible to hack it if your originals should ever fail.  I say 'should' because EA usually stores most of its data normal and has only a fewer error checks; in other words they don't usually put vital data in the copy-protected sectors.

Don't forget to back-up your disks!  

[jt-3d]

Hi, at the risk of being forever labeled here as a pedant: It's ECA not EOA. That's what EA was known as before they changed it to just EA.

[Andrew Wiskow]

Hi, at the risk of being forever labeled here as a pedant: It's ECA not EOA. That's what EA was known as before they changed it to just EA.

Uh... No....

EA's classic Square/Circle/Triangle corporate logo, adopted shortly after its founding and phased out in 1999, was devised by Barry Deutsch of Steinhilber Deutsch and Gard design firm. The three shapes were meant to stand for the "basic alphabet of graphic design." The shapes were rasterized to connote technology.

Many customers mistook the square/circle/triangle logo for a stylized "EOA." Though they thought the "E" stood for "Electronic" and "A" for "Arts," they had no idea what the "O" could stand for, except perhaps the o in "Electronic." An early newsletter of EA, Farther, even jokingly discussed the topic in one issue, claiming that the square and triangle indeed stood for "E" and "A", but that the circle was merely "a Nerf ball that got stuck in a floppy drive and has been popping up on our splash screens ever since."[citation needed] This was, in part, true. In the early days at Electronic Arts, nerf balls imprinted with the square/circle/triangle shapes could be found floating around the office, in cubicles and elsewhere.

Nancy Fong and Bing Gordon came up with the idea to hide the three shapes on the cover of every game, borrowing the idea from the urban legends concerning the placement of the bunny symbols on the covers of Playboy magazine. Finding the logo's hidden placement on early EA titles was a ritual for employees whenever a new cover was displayed outside Fong's cubicle.

-Andrew

[nikoniko]

Hi, at the risk of being forever labeled here as a pedant: It's ECA not EOA. That's what EA was known as before they changed it to just EA.

Nah, we don't have a tagging system here, so it'd be hard to label you as pedantic.

But they actually were EOA in the UK for some years, as there was already a company registered as Electronic Arts.

[Blacklord]

Nah, we don't have a tagging system here, so it'd be hard to label you as pedantic.

It'll take me about 2 seconds to implement a reputation mod

Lance

[jt-3d]

Shoot, I've been calling it ECA for 20 years. Turns out there's no reason to. Looking at the packaging for all my C=64 EA games, I see no definition for the logo. It's always been called Electronic Arts. At some point I decided that it was a C and stood for something that I forgot like 'computer'. Now that I think about it I decided back in the day that it meant the last C in electronic but I made that up so long ago that I forgot I made it up. Just goes to to show how a habit can become your own reality if it goes on long enough. Sorry for the interuption. Nothing to see here, move along.

Since I have my soapbox pulled up already though, the bunny legend is mislabeled in the wiki quote, or at least worded a bit sloppy and contridicted by clicking a few links at wiki. The legend revolves around the stars on any given Playboy, not the hidden bunnies themselves. The bunnies are there. Somebody should fix that but I'm not a wiki. I'm sure this has something to do with 128s. I'm just not sure what. :rodna:

[airship]

Each of us lives in his own world - I think there are almost 7 billion different realities out there.

I worked for Hef for a short while - as a busboy at the Lake Geneva Playboy Club. The scuttlebutt there was that the stars were no urban legend. They really DID note how many times Hef had slept with the Playmate of the month.

[Guest]

would need to find the parameter to patch it.. but that is a different story.

Here is a printout of the Kracker Jax Parameter cross reference disk,
Some of the programs listed can be copied from the net.


EARTH ORBIT STATION BY ELECTRONIC ARTS

DISK-INVADER V9.9
VMAX COPIER AND NIBBLER INCLUDED

DISK-INVADER V902
LOCATED ON SIDE 2 OF PRODUCT

FAST HACK'EM V6.01
LOCATED ON SD1 OF PRODUCT

FAST HACK'EM V6.04
LOCATED ON SIDE ONE OF PROGRAM DISK

KRACKER JAX VOL.   6

RENEGADE V1.O MODULE 1
DUPES PROTECTION-USE DATA COPIER

RENEGADE V1.O3 MODULE 1
DUPES PROTECTION-USE DATA COPIER

SOFTWARE SPECIALTIES VOL. 1
REAPPLY PARM ON SUBSEQUENT BACKUPS

PARAMETERS PAK #3
PRIOR WAS PARAMETERS 'R US VOL. 3

ULTRABYTE V4.0
LOCATED ON SD2 OF MASTER DISK

ULTRABYTE V5.0
LOCATED ON DISK 1 OF 2 DISK SET

ULTRABYTE V6.0
LOCATED ON SD2 OF MASTER DISK