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From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: M.U.L.E. Sorrow!
Message-ID: <39563@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 00:29:59 GMT
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After all the recent mentions here of M.U.L.E. (probably THE BEST game ever
created for the 8-bit Atari), I went to play MY copy thereof, for the first
time in ages, only to find that it would no longer boot.  I get about three
or four sectors read in (i.e. three beeps), then the system locks up.  I
can only assume the disk has "gone bad" with the passage of time, although
this is one of only a handful out of hundreds I own that shows this kind of
deterioration.

Anyway, can anybody suggest a course of restoration?  Anything _I_ can try
on my disk, any way to obtain a fresh copy (I assume the original authors
have long since moved on to other places and projects), anybody looking to
SELL their copy?

Tnx for any help...

   Chris

      Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com