Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: MULE for Atari800 Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 91 10:10:31 GMT References: <4674@gumby.Altos.COM> , <10800@ge-dab.ge.com> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 7 Feb 91 23:38:20 GMT >>>>> On 7 Feb 91 23:38:20 GMT, mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) said: > Yeah, and I had to get rid of it when I got rid of my 800, it just > wouldn't run on the ST, couldn't even get the disk in the drive :-) > Electronic Arts are weenies for not releasing it for the ST. It's a business decision. They decided that a port of MULE to the Atari ST and the Amiga simply wouldn't generate enough sales to be worth it. BTW, the author of MULE, Dan Bunten, currently has the rights to the program. So if you could find him and offer him a cut of the proceeds, you could probably get a license to do an ST port... m. -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "Never forget what gossips men are, and how they love to feel superior to so-and-so who `is having trouble with his wife.'" --Nina Fischer, "How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead" part of the Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Women