Delmoko

I just got mine today at Toys R Us for $29.95. It works great, and I really appreciate the rom zip list! It appears i have a dead pixel on my screen. That's gonna drive me crazy. Anybody else have this issue with theirs??

Where is the rom for this?

Can somebody post a link to where the ROM for M.U.L.E. can be downloaded?

I have 3 XE cartridges that are rattling... anybody??

Has somebody printed these out yet so I can purchase them!?!?!?! PLEASE!

So everybody here plays the Atari version I'm assuming? I like the Commodore version better for a few reasons - the most important one being that I think the AI is a lot more intelligent than the Atari version. We've actually lost to the Commodore computer twice! That didn't even come close to happening in the 10+ years we played the Atari version. The colors are also more pronounced and easier on the eyes on the Commodore. When planetquakes happen mountains never move - I like this. If you only have 2 players or you're playing solo, I'd certainly check out the Commodore version. Hell - there is a guy on ebay that sells "blank re-usable disks" for $7.99 each - and one of them just happens to have M.U.L.E. on it.

Since writing these I found out: -- I believe Crystite can go as high as $300 after a Supply Ship comes! -- You can press "alt" on the keyboard to speed up the Computer's round and to also end auctions when you're done and just the computer is trading. This speeds up the game A LOT! -- The Wampus starts out being worth $100... for every player's round that he isn't caught he goes up by $100 to a maximum of $1000. After being caught that number divides in half and is rounded up. (I.e. you catch him at $900, next player's turn he will be worth $500: which is $450 rounded up) I am all for playing M.U.L.E. on real hardware, but DosBOX being the only way to play this gem is ok with me. Well worth checking out!

Here is a short list of differences I found while playing a 24 round tournament game on the IBM: Supply ship randomly comes and doubles the price of Crystite. One round the price was $172 a unit. The supply ship doesn't count as a round event - a regular event happens after the ship leaves. The line where the buyer and seller meet does not form a solid line to indicate a transaction is taking place - also the transaction itself is too quick. It's difficult to precisely buy or sell the number of units you want. (I played via DosBox set at 311 cycles) In the auction round, the time limit to decide whether to buy or sell goes MUCH too quickly. When the auction shows how much the store has, it's a good idea to be pressing up or down on your joystick to either buy or sell. You cannot hit button to speed up computer player's round - not a huge deal, but a minor annoyance. You see when the computer catches the Wampus - and it seems to be random in amounts... I saw up to $800 - and that was in an early round (I got $200 in round 9). I found it harder to catch Wampus as he seems to move a mountain every flash. I never saw more than 1 land auction in a row in a turn. Crystite does not sell in increments of fours (140, 144, 148).. at one point it sold for $143. I witnessed "bad event music" at the beginning of turns but no text sometimes to tell me what the event was? Also - no scrolling text on beginning of turn events. Orange played as the Smithore maker for the colony - brown and red played normal games (i.e. food/energy - Smithore in the beginning, more Crystite as properties were assayed). When the game is over - you can't hit your button and go back and look at the final board to see how the plots ended up.

This is from the one time we tried the round 12 trading bit. There were only two human players but we got a score of 183,000. Your score of 500,000+ is awesome to see! I guess you retire in the same Luxurious estates you do if you score 125,000? This picture is from years ago on the Atari 800 version. (2003'ish) Honestly - we had never played the Commodore version until sometime in 2013 - but by 2013 we were down to two of us playing (other two human players either got married or moved away) and were itching for a "new" version. I have not tried this trick on the Commodore, but I can't imagine it wouldn't work. Growing up "all things Atari" I was shocked to find out that I like the Commodore version MUCH better! My biggest gripe is that it seems on Planetquakes EVERYTHING gets about 1/4 production... not just mining and it's certainly less than half. I think Dan Bunten moved a decimal somewhere!

Yes, many differences... I wrote a piece about it... just looking for it now! The most we've played is 3... and that was probably a solid 5 hours.

What is the most games of M.U.L.E. you have ever played in a day?

Two Atari 800 games from last night - first time we've played Atari in the a long while. We're breaking in a newbie 3rd player - she didn't do too well. She understands the game and really likes it... but needs to work on her timing and get a lot more games under her belt. I'm always Orange Gollumer and my cousin (The Zonz) is always the Green Spheroid.

Current living room entertainment center set up - Commodore 64 on the left for two player M.U.L.E. - Atari 800 on the right for 3 or 4 player M.U.L.E. and my PC with the Stella 2600 joystick adapter for when I play the IBM/pcjr version of M.U.L.E. on Dosbox.

Played my first IBM/pcjr game. You can play 24 months in this. After having played 100's of games for Commodore/Atari... this is a whole new ball of wax. Sometimes a SUPPLY SHIP comes back and doubles the price of Crystite. Has anybody else played this?

Late to the party here, but I've been playing Gateway since the 80s... this utility with the maps is unbelievable. Thank you SO much!!!! Btw... the Colecovision version has 99 dungeon choices per level! I wish the Commodore version changed the colors of the walls like the Atari version... how lazy is that! Your reverse engineering on MULE is awesome too... another favorite we still play to this day! Simply amazing work! "Your Mule was judged best built"

Awesome... I finally put a spreadsheet together at work this past week. What is your email... I'll send it to you. I can't attach an excel file here. We just started playing the Commodore version. What a difference from the Atari version!!! After 10+ years, the computer (The Blue Mechtron) actually beat us! Unreal... You almost have to have 2 food plots in this version... and Energy and Food is seemingly worth more than Crystite most of the time.

Date Orange GoBlue GollOrange SpOrange LeGreen SphPink SpheBlue PackPink BonzPink LeggGreen LegBlue LeggBlue MechPink MechGreen MecBlue BonzOrange PaColony ToFirst Fou MISC. INFO 09/09/2001 27580 21314 10975 15265 75134 Delmoko 25/01/2004 7424 15904 10272 24730 58330 Spencer 30/01/2004 24995 25243 13301 18113 81677 Zonz 07/02/2004 24457 19056 17788 21807 83108 Delmoko 07/02/2004 31248 29857 18001 16759 95865 Delmoko 07/02/2004 25215 22953 17438 21252 86858 Delmoko 07/02/2004 25218 22953 17438 21282 86858 Delmoko 12/02/2004 28992 23956 18251 18129 89322 Delmoko Spencer vs Delmoko 14/02/2004 22022 22326 21832 18918 85098 Zonz 06/03/2004 24748 21617 19172 13400 78937 Delmoko 23/04/2004 24757 20528 14624 18116 78025 Delmoko 30/04/2004 24095 27853 28886 26486 107320 Spencer 16/05/2004 26540 32608 20029 15434 94611 Zonz Blue Leggite 20/07/2004 18889 23017 18949 8941 69796 Zonz Blue Leggite 20/07/2004 17009 28756 26307 21908 93980 Zonz 20/07/2004 26221 24050 23265 20534 94070 Delmoko 30/03/2005 22030 19507 24541 19444 85522 Lafuda 30/03/2005 18254 24311 19400 22707 84681 Zonz 30/03/2005 20116 15312 9168 9016 51809 Delmoko Blue Bonzoid? Richie? 09/05/2005 22728 23152 19286 19674 82916 Zonz 12/06/2005 22202 26645 24631 10928 84404 Zonz 25/06/2005 18285 29027 19797 21720 88830 Zonz 07/07/2005 16279 16146 12879 26786 72089 ???? Blue Mechtron Won? 10/09/2005 20245 20897 21136 23652 85930 ???? Blue Mechtron Won? 27/02/2006 31301 30895 16335 17075 95606 Delmoko 27/02/2006 21041 25341 21716 10358 78456 Zonz Pink Leggite 27/02/2006 22889 30937 21315 24429 99570 Zonz 27/02/2006 21646 11867 13385 16845 63743 Delmoko 27/02/2006 30121 29180 18354 19096 96751 Delmoko 27/02/2006 27668 30544 22927 18692 99848 Zonz 27/02/2006 28141 28085 17183 16631 90040 Delmoko 27/02/2006 32469 34487 17040 20236 104232 Zonz 23/04/2006 56627 66798 18017 29845 171287 Zonz 23/04/2006 56159 76931 30401 20309 183800 Zonz 23/04/2006 22717 24070 13306 15437 75530 Zonz 23/04/2006 18075 20504 24412 19833 82824 Lafuda 23/04/2006 32269 36053 16076 16319 100717 Zonz 23/04/2006 16019 23359 18664 22105 80147 Zonz 16/07/2006 26289 32194 19941 26359 104783 Zonz Blue Leggite 16/07/2006 39559 33079 12379 15325 100352 Delmoko 01/12/2007 36166 16231 22470 15828 90693 Delmoko 05/12/2007 24621 23899 19130 9491 77141 Delmoko 08/03/2009 29550 32137 26245 22767 110699 Zonz 27/08/2010 30776 28764 21782 22346 103588 Delmoko 04/09/2010 30640 27015 26726 17620 102001 Delmoko 05/09/2010 27840 15568 15725 33637 93060 Delmoko Orange Packer, Green Leggite 17/09/2010 30816 29621 16118 18473 95028 Delmoko 08/10/2010 30383 32828 17366 18768 99345 Zonz 09/09/2011 27580 21314 10976 15265 75134 Delmoko 10/09/2011 28752 24833 15213 18984 87782 Delmoko 11/09/2011 32695 28987 19602 13308 94592 Delmoko 13/09/2011 26267 24764 23477 24724 99232 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 25/09/2011 17031 18180 18942 16895 71048 Zonz 2 ppl, 4 player 25/09/2011 29734 14477 11077 20279 75567 Delmoko 1 player game -testing new character 26/09/2011 26093 24413 24005 20603 95114 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 28/09/2011 13195 14676 11056 14304 53231 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 01/10/2011 30372 20883 27332 21784 100371 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 14/10/2011 29208 27602 16804 18550 92164 Delmoko 07/01/2012 18684 23766 12936 24549 79935 Zonz 2 ppl, 4 player 14/01/2012 17735 25755 23904 19475 86869 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 24/03/2012 22740 19867 18928 16849 78384 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 11/08/2012 22070 26497 21873 18958 89398 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 31/08/2012 29017 20742 17215 32358 99332 Zonz 2 ppl, 4 player 07/09/2012 19975 23764 25971 17232 86942 Zonz 2 ppl, 4 player 29/09/2012 23972 18345 17403 21765 81485 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 24/04/2013 20267 21431 20166 20019 81883 Delmoko 2 ppl, 4 player 11/01/2014 20803 22735 17183 18323 78961 Zonz Commodore 64 12/01/2014 22027 ` 15715 14695 73104 Delmoko Commodore 64 16/01/2014 20423 24157 18681 16709 79970 Zonz Commodore 64 16/01/2014 18940 20445 23726 15554 78665 COMPUTER Commodore 64 18/01/2014 21136 27508 12013 16743 81402 Zonz Commodore 64 0 Pirate 18/01/2014 19878 19502 16487 11669 67536 Delmoko Commodore 64 1 Pirate 18/01/2014 33108 18629 15685 15471 82893 Delmoko Commodore 64 $10 bet $2000 mining mule on Delmoko round 1$10 bet *Energy worth $164 in round 12 $10 bet 2 meteorite strikes, 2 pirates, 77 C$10 bet

Last 10 years of M.U.L.E. scores from pictures I've taken after games. Let me know what you think. - Delmoko

Yeah, I was thinking of compiling a list at work... thanks for the heads up.

..and Temple of Rom.

Oh, and Castle of Thoraggard.

I def. want Clowns and Balloons, Doubleback, Rampage, Tetris, Reactoid, Silpheed (I have Thexder), Tennis, Skiing, Starblaze, Gin Champion, Androne, Araknoid, Robocop, Crosswords, Shanghai and anything else I don't have. Tetris, Football II and Rad Warrior are on the way.

I am not recycling old carts... and yes, I am looking for games I don't have. I am working on putting together a list... it's very difficult to find a list of TRS80 cartridges that were put out.

Ha, thanks... I'm pretty active on ebay!

Does anybody have any TRS80 cartridges laying around that they'd want to get rid of? I picked up about 10 more carts after this picture was taken... Let me know... Thanks! Ray