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hoffer

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Mar 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/25/99
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Does anyone have the EOA game Source of the Nile in .c64 or .t64 format? My
C64's been dead for years but I still remember that as a really neat game!

John

Roger J. Long

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Mar 27, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/27/99
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 02:55:38 GMT, "hoffer" <hof...@flash.net> wrote:

>Does anyone have the EOA game Source of the Nile in .c64 or .t64 format? My
>C64's been dead for years but I still remember that as a really neat game!

Electronic Arts made a program called Heart of Africa, which was a
follow-up to Seven Cities of Gold. I'm guessing that Heart of Africa
is the one you're thinking of, because you could travel up the Nile
river to its source.

Don't have it in either .c64 or .t64 format. I've got it in its
original format--I bought the program.

(Trivia time: the Electronic Arts magazine "Farther" once had a
discussion on whether the logo represented EleCtronic Arts--ECA or
ElectrOnic Arts--EOA. I always referred to the logo as what it was:
a cube, a sphere and a pyramid.)

hof...@my-dejanews.com

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Apr 16, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/16/99
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I have the original tucked away at home too, I bet. Thanks for the info.

I also always referred to the Electronic Arts symbols as a Box, circle and a
triangle. I always assumed it was ElectrOnic Arts, but thining about it, the O
would actually be partly covered, no?

Interesting thought!

hoffer

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Matthew W. Miller

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Apr 17, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/17/99
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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:08:12 GMT, hof...@my-dejanews.com
<hof...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>I also always referred to the Electronic Arts symbols as a Box, circle
>and a triangle. I always assumed it was ElectrOnic Arts, but thining
>about it, the O would actually be partly covered, no?

The circle looks like it could be a C or an O, but as far as I know
it's...just a circle. Most of EA's programs were booted with LOAD"EA",8,1
after all; I guess they put the circle in to make the logo look less
angular and computery, or some such thing.
Trivial aside: They aren't terribly consistent about the number of
`rows' in the logo. Most of the printed ones have 11 `rows'. Most of the
color-flashing-logo booters have 9 `rows'. On the Caveman Ugh-Lympics box
I have, the logo has 7 `rows'.

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Matthew W. Miller -- ma...@infinet.com

Simon Stewart

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Apr 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/19/99
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"Matthew W. Miller" wrote:
>
> The circle looks like it could be a C or an O, but as far as I know
> it's...just a circle. Most of EA's programs were booted with LOAD"EA",8,1
> after all; I guess they put the circle in to make the logo look less
> angular and computery, or some such thing.
> Trivial aside: They aren't terribly consistent about the number of
> `rows' in the logo. Most of the printed ones have 11 `rows'. Most of the
> color-flashing-logo booters have 9 `rows'. On the Caveman Ugh-Lympics box
> I have, the logo has 7 `rows'.

The EA logo is based on the square triangle and circle since in the
early days it was the three shapes in 2D. Later on this was changed to
the more 3D like logo which was built up from horizontal lines.

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Simon Stewart, simon....@lineone.net
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For C64 games reviews taken from the pages of Zzap!64

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