Comments on: Money in Space – Earth Orbit Stations http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/ Exploring games, music and programming on the 8-bit Apple II computers. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Dave Wilhelm http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Dave Wilhelm Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:59:50 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-622 I had this game and loved it. Too bad that you will not be able to run this on anything but a ture Apple II. Sorry guys. I contacted the author of this game many years ago wondering if it had been ported over to the PC. What I found out was the Apple II version of this game was written using some "un-documented' commands in the 6502 chip. These commands were not brought over to the 65C02 in the Apple II+ and therefore the game will not run on any platform other then a true 6502 machine. Sorry, even the emulators will not work due to them being based on the documented CPU commands. Your best bet is to try to find the Commador 64 version and a C64 emulator. As a mater of fact, that is exactly what I was doing when I found this site. Good luck All!! Apple II, Apple II+, Apple IIGS owner I had this game and loved it. Too bad that you will not be able to run this on anything but a ture Apple II. Sorry guys.

I contacted the author of this game many years ago wondering if it had been ported over to the PC. What I found out was the Apple II version of this game was written using some “un-documented’ commands in the 6502 chip. These commands were not brought over to the 65C02 in the Apple II+ and therefore the game will not run on any platform other then a true 6502 machine. Sorry, even the emulators will not work due to them being based on the documented CPU commands.

Your best bet is to try to find the Commador 64 version and a C64 emulator. As a mater of fact, that is exactly what I was doing when I found this site.

Good luck All!!
Apple II, Apple II+, Apple IIGS owner

]]> By: Jonah Falcon http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-613 Jonah Falcon Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:56:37 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-613 I played this on the C-64. I never did find alien life. (sigh) :p I played this on the C-64. I never did find alien life. (sigh) :p

]]> By: Lee F. http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Lee F. Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:29:03 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-546 I remember buying this game for my dad waaay back and being blown away by the GUI, but humbled by its complexity. I found a copy more recently for my 8-bit Apple collection and have only ever tinkered with it. Your article inspires me to give it another honest-to-goodness go! :) I did this not too long ago with the classic Elite. It <a href="http://www.ioyu.com/io/2007/01/elite-pretty-much-best-game-ever.html" rel="nofollow">did not disappoint</a> one bit! (Commenting on my blog is probably broken right now since I haven't fully migrated it since Blogger turned off their FTP publishing feature. Sorry.) -Lee I remember buying this game for my dad waaay back and being blown away by the GUI, but humbled by its complexity. I found a copy more recently for my 8-bit Apple collection and have only ever tinkered with it. Your article inspires me to give it another honest-to-goodness go! :)

I did this not too long ago with the classic Elite. It did not disappoint one bit! (Commenting on my blog is probably broken right now since I haven’t fully migrated it since Blogger turned off their FTP publishing feature. Sorry.)
-Lee

]]> By: PY http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-544 PY Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:26:04 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-544 Oh yeah. One other thing y'all should know. The game does *not* work on the GS. Oh yeah. One other thing y’all should know. The game does *not* work on the GS.

]]> By: JJ Sonick http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-508 JJ Sonick Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:38:39 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-508 Well it's two double-sided disks - one is boot/game, the other is archive/mission, but <del datetime="2009-03-04T03:39:50+00:00">yes, those images are what you need</del>. Actually, I realized you should have *four* disk images total, since boot and game are totally different sides of the real disk A. Anyway, hope they transfer! Well it’s two double-sided disks – one is boot/game, the other is archive/mission, but yes, those images are what you need. Actually, I realized you should have *four* disk images total, since boot and game are totally different sides of the real disk A. Anyway, hope they transfer!

]]> By: Lancaster http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-505 Lancaster Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:54:43 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-505 Looks like those worked! Thanks much! It seems like there are three disks: the boot/game disk, the archive disk, and the mission disk. Does that match up with your bonafide copy of the game? On a related note, the Asimov images are NIB files, so this will be my first test of getting a NIB onto a physical disk. The odds don't look good though: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.sys.apple2/2005-10/msg00185.html Looks like those worked! Thanks much! It seems like there are three disks: the boot/game disk, the archive disk, and the mission disk. Does that match up with your bonafide copy of the game?

On a related note, the Asimov images are NIB files, so this will be my first test of getting a NIB onto a physical disk. The odds don’t look good though:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.sys.apple2/2005-10/msg00185.html

]]> By: JJ Sonick http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-504 JJ Sonick Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:06 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-504 Hi Lancaster, it looks like the problem with the game as it's presented on the Virtual Apple site is that it *is* a multiple disk game, and they only have one of the disks on the site. You might try these disk images from Asimov first, to see if they work: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/strategy/earth_orbit_stations/ If they don't, let me know, and I could ADTPro some disk images from my copy of the game. Hi Lancaster, it looks like the problem with the game as it’s presented on the Virtual Apple site is that it *is* a multiple disk game, and they only have one of the disks on the site.

You might try these disk images from Asimov first, to see if they work:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/strategy/earth_orbit_stations/

If they don’t, let me know, and I could ADTPro some disk images from my copy of the game.

]]> By: Lancaster http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Lancaster Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:43:52 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-503 I'm interested in playing this game on my ][+ since it meets the system requirements - but I don't have the actual software, so I was going to create a disk from a disk image. The one on the Virtual Apple website works fine up until where it asks you for an "Archive Disk." Is this a disk that one can self-create? If not, I assume you have such a disk (since you got the game working)... would you be interested in ripping an image of it and uploading it to Asimov or some other online archive? :) I’m interested in playing this game on my ][+ since it meets the system requirements – but I don’t have the actual software, so I was going to create a disk from a disk image. The one on the Virtual Apple website works fine up until where it asks you for an “Archive Disk.” Is this a disk that one can self-create? If not, I assume you have such a disk (since you got the game working)… would you be interested in ripping an image of it and uploading it to Asimov or some other online archive? :)

]]> By: JJ Sonick http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-22 JJ Sonick Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:08:21 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-22 Thanks, Wholly! I've added the Pre-Mac Goodness section of RetroMacCast to my Links roll. Thanks, Wholly! I’ve added the Pre-Mac Goodness section of RetroMacCast to my Links roll.

]]> By: Wholly http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/2008/11/money-in-space-earth-orbit-stations/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Wholly Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:35:04 +0000 http://www.mozomedia.com/apple2/?p=78#comment-21 Keep up the good work! 8bits got us a long way and it's great to have you show off the things you're finding! Thanks for the great screenshots too! Keep up the good work! 8bits got us a long way and it’s great to have you show off the things you’re finding! Thanks for the great screenshots too!

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