potter@speedway15.DAB.GE.COM (Jeff Potter) (03/17/90)
Andrew, with respect to your message: I've heard people rave about this game for years. Does it require all human players? Or can you play against computer opponents? Sure! Computer opponents are always substituted when less than four human players play. You can even watch an all-computer-players game take place (not too exciting, but you can determine their strategies). Several different strategies exist, and it looks like different computer players play different ones (at different times :-). Try to emulate the strategies of the winners.
bwb00@hplisa.HP.COM (Brian Brakke) (03/23/90)
> > Isn't MULE a four player game, requiring 4 joystick ports? For this >reason, I had assumed that it wouldn't work on an XL. > Ivan Warner >---------- MULE does run on an XL. If memory serves me, you could only have 2 human players and the computer would play the other 2. I agree with all previous statements about MULE. One of the best games I ever have played. Brian Brakke ------------
den@hpfinote.HP.COM (Don Novy) (03/24/90)
M.U.L.E. can run on an 800XL! I have modified mine to have either 4 joysticks or 256K of RAM. You can't have both at the same time as they share the same hardware. I haven't used this in quite a while (hard to get a MULE group together anymore), but it works great. Don Novy Hewlett-Packard den@hpfitst2.hp.com These comments do not represent those of my employer.
sg3401@sjfc.UUCP (Steve Gemma) (03/26/90)
In article <2230001@hplisa.HP.COM> bwb00@hplisa.HP.COM (Brian Brakke) writes: >MULE does run on an XL. If memory serves me, you could only have 2 >human players and the computer would play the other 2. I agree with >all previous statements about MULE. One of the best games I ever have >played. > >Brian Brakke >------------ I got MULE when I had my old 800, but when I upgraded to a 130XE and tried to play, the game assumed that the two players who had no joysticks were assumed to be human. Since there was no way of controlling what these players did, the game was rendered unplayable. However, just because the game is so great, my brothers and I disconnect our 130 and hook up the 800 just to play MULE! Steve Gemma
andrewh@dasys1.uucp (andrew huie) (03/28/90)
Actually, you can get 3 players out of an XL if you use paddle controllers (remember those?) in port 2. You MUST use a joystick in port 1, though. -- andrew huie ( andrewh@dasys1.UUCP ) | "I'll tell you one more thing -- Big Electric Cat Public UNIX | boys grow up into men by being tricked ...cmcl2!dasys1!andrewh | by women." - Kei