Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: M.U.L.E. Message-ID: Date: 29 Sep 90 11:59:03 GMT References: <25811.2703c48d@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Lines: 40 >In article yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > >>Does anyone know if M.U.L.E. from Electronic's Art ever made it to the Amiga? >>(I seriously doubt it, but I can always hope...:-) > >WHAT EA do somthing Nice for amiga owners.... Nahhhhhh. >(never seen mule for the AMiga and doubt if it will EVER come out, >Look at ARTIC FOX, ARCHON,ECT.... they are OUT for the amiga >but only 1.1! (or 1.2) and do ya think they'll ever upgrade? >NO the stuff's been discontinued.... > >Soo much for User Support, Makes CBM look like a Company that CAREs. > I am not defending EA, but you do have to consider the way they work.... EA does not write anything themselves (or very little). They contract to distribute games written by others. If someone develops a game that they really like, they will farm it out to contract programmers to produce the game for other machines. Once that version is written, then usually nothing else is done to "improve" the game. M.U.L.E and ARCTIC FOX came out before the Amiga was around. I guess that either EA no longer had the rights to produce the game for the Amiga (which I doubt), or that there wasn't a good enough business case to justify an Amiga port. In the case of 'stoopid' and buggy ports, I agree that there is no excuse for some of the dumb-assed ports that EA has produced. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,moray}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic