DAN & Ozark Softscape

[Melanie Bunten Stark]

We'd like to thank you fans for playing this game and staying faithful MULE'Rs for all these years.  The development team did an awesome job and you have been kind to say so.

Dad would get a kick out of this.  He had actually been working on a MULE sequel that had new characters, theme and a totally new look - way out of the box for him.  Hopefully, it will see the light of day.

Thanks again everyone!

MELDANNIC, LLC  ...Preserving our dad's legacy...OzarkSoftscape.com
Melanie, Daniel & Nick Bunten

[Bertoid]

I hope he knew how much his work meant to so many of us. 

I just saw that he was instrumental in the game Seven Cities of Gold as well.  I would get so absorbed into that game.  It was a slow, hours-long game, but thoroughly engaging to me.  I remember spending countless nights in my parents' basement on the Atari, sailing the sea for a half hour, trudging through uncharted wilderness, being chased by natives...good times.  Amazing to know M.U.L.E. and SCOG came from the same brain.

The whole setting and atmosphere of M.U.L.E. captured my imagination.  The Sci-Fi and dry humor reminded me much of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker books.  I even tried to write a book based on M.U.L.E. with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Douglas Adams as my inspirations, but I just couldn't make it work.  Maybe someone will someday (I'm looking at YOU, forum reader!). 

[Stormdancer]

Yep... Seven Cities of Gold has always been one of my absolute favorite games of all time... right behind M.U.L.E.  :>

Melanie - while it's been fantastic to finally get to play this game again, it means MUCH more to me that Dan's kids are a part of it.  Thank you for helping make this all possible.

[Tei]

the game is part of the story, forever

[SuperJoker]

Yep... Seven Cities of Gold has always been one of my absolute favorite games of all time... right behind M.U.L.E.  :>

Melanie - while it's been fantastic to finally get to play this game again, it means MUCH more to me that Dan's kids are a part of it.  Thank you for helping make this all possible.

Same here, I had both and Seven Cities I'd play and play and well You know... MULE was always good, All on an Atari 400 at one time. Now I just have figure out how to forward a port in My system, As It goes through a Netscape WPN824 v3(@ 108Mbps) and then to a Westell 7500 dsl modem/router.