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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Comparison ... (Really: Please write M.U.L.E. for the Amiga)
Summary: I'll buy it!!!
Message-ID: <32496@auc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 20:23:39 GMT
References: <34319@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.
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In article <34319@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>As I said before, I want M.U.L.E. for the AMIGA!

So do I!

>...Dan Bunten, who never made much $$$ from this superb game (although the
>Nintendo version might make him some--on QLink 4 years ago he said, "If
>everyone who has told me what a great game M.U.L.E. is had BOUGHT the game,
>I'd be in MUCH better financial shape!").

I bought M.U.L.E. for my Commodore 64 several years ago, and I LOVE the game.
Since I haven't used my 64 in a long time, I haven't played M.U.L.E. in a
long time.

If a version of M.U.L.E was written for the 64 that

  1) Takes advantage of the Amiga's graphics and sound capabilities (the
     graphics should be somewhat better than the original, but the original
     sound would work just fine).

  2) Takes advantage of other capabilities of the Amiga (pull down menus,
     the mouse, and multitasking).  DON'T TAKE OVER THE MACHINE UNLESS YOU
     ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, HAVE TO!!!

  3) Played like the original.  Same algorithms for determining growth, etc.
     Although it would need to load from disk MUCH faster!!! :-)

  4) Was priced reasonably.

   I would definitely be willing to buy it again.

   Ok, I would still buy it even if it didn't multitask, although it would
not be as much as an impulse decision.  In other words, if I walked into the
store and saw it with ALL of the features that I listed above, when I walked
out of the store, I would have bought a copy.  Otherwise, It would take a
while longer.

   Of course, if it weren't copy protected, I would be much more likely to
get it, with thoughts of installing it on the hard disk I'm saving up for.

>                                          I wrote EA with the proposal and
>got a phone call back from somebody there who told me that they'd market
>it (!) if a good version was written 

and like I said, I'd buy it if a good version were WRITTEN (not just ported).

By the way, anyone want to buy M.U.L.E. for the 64?  Original documents and
packaging included.  How about Deadline?

>                                                --Rick Wrigley
>                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
>M.U.L.E. skinners unite!

Rodney
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