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  1. Re:Anyone else want a network enabled version of.. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1 · on Resurrecting Old Games, What Works?
    That wasn't a remake of MULE, it was MULE II, an entirely different piece of software. And even that was still in the 8-bit era, hardly anything that would run on modern hardware.

    The internet MULE is here and there is also a DOS program called Subtrade that changes the rules a bit, makes it less predictable with much better computer players than the rather stupid ones in MULE.

  2. This is nothing new... by lord_mike · · Score: 1 · on America's Robot Army

    ...We've had this technology since the early-80's!

    http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/

    For more details:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.

  3. Re:There can be only one #1... by Angvaw · · Score: 1 · on What Are Your Top Five 'Comfort' Games?

    You could have four players on Commodore. During auctions and land claim, the two keyboard players used keys on the left and right side of the keyboard. Wasn't a big deal because during auctions you only need up/down controls (2 keys) and during land claim, a single button was needed. During the main turn, you grabbed any joystick.

    The Atari version was almost a beta version. The debugged and refined game became the Commodore version.

    There was a particularly nasty exploit (some disagree about its nastiness) on Atari that allowed two players to insanely inflate the colony score. See this thread - http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/forums/viewtopi c.php?t=85

    When you got a Planetquake event on Atari, in addition to halving mining production, there was a "feature" where a mountain would occasionally move and a MULE would disappear. This was removed for Commodore.

    Also turn times were refined for Commodore.

  4. Re:M.U.L.E. by El+Gigante+de+Justic · · Score: 1 · on Commodore 64 Titles Join Wii's Virtual Console

    Atari M.U.L.E can be played online at http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/ Even better, it has online support built in already as long as all users are running the same version. There's a download package with a bunch of utilities for setting it up.

  5. Re:at least 2 real classics are missing... by stirz · · Score: 1 · on The Top 5 Games of All Time

    Hm, I just found out on "World of MULE" , that someone made it possible to play the original MULE with 4 players over the internet! Sadly, "Atari MULE Online doesn't seem to run natively on Linux. Let's hope it runs with WINE...

    Regards,
    Stirz

  6. Re:Innovation out of EA? by doofusclam · · Score: 1 · on EA Aiming For 50% Innovation
    I think this is the first time I've actually seen EA and innovation in the same sentence.


    When EA started they were great. Anyone else here remember M.U.L.E??

    http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/
  7. Re:Another day.. by 10537 · · Score: 1 · on Digital Illusions Sells to EA

    Who needs another version? Why not play the original online?

  8. Re:what happened to the old EA games?? by kissyfish · · Score: 1 · on Take Two in Talks with Major League Baseball

    Not to mention MULE! I had countless of hours dumped into that game. http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/ There is apparently a MULE community still out there, you can play the atari version online with multiple players on your PC (WINXP/98 only) Sorry for replying to myself Kissy