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The Elegance and Humanity
of an Antique Video Game

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The Happy Ending
…and after several M.U.L.E.-less years, one night on the Internet I discovered the world of emulators. An emulator is a program that makes a computer think it is a different kind of computer (a Macintosh can act like a PC [no cracks, please], or vice-versa).

It turns out busy little fingers around the world have created Atari emulators, Odyssey emulators, and of course Commodore 64 emulators. And while they were at it they also ported (i.e., translated) the code of all those forgotten games of the 1980s so that they will, through the emulator, run on your very own desk-top (or laptop) computer.

Now, surrounded by gigabytes of mega-games, in a room filled with speakers and many watts of amplification, your faithful critic several times a week clicks on a C-64 emulator.

Instantly the old familiar blue Commodore screen appears (proudly announcing it has "38911 Basic Bytes Free"), and next thing you know I hear the M.U.L.E. theme song coming through my surround-sound, and I’m off for an hour in the wonderful never-never-land of the planet Irata.

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M.U.L.E. Resources

An Appreciation of Danielle Bunten Berry
http://www.happypuppy.com/features/editorials/danibuntenb-ed-1.html

Speeches by Danielle Bunten Berry
http://www.eidolons-inn.de/mule/mulememo.htm

M.U.L.E. Sites
The World of M.U.L.E.
http://www.eidolons-inn.de/mule/
The M.U.L.E. Web
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/grubsoft/
M.U.L.E.
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~amany/mule.html

Emulator Sites
http://www.classicgaming.com/vault/c64emu.shtml
http://www.commodorezone.com/emul.htm

 

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