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Classic Games (Games)

M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."

Comment Re:My advice (Score 0) 176

Don't use FLAK or some other monkey sound formats. Go with a real standard, like Windows Lossless, or Apple Lossless, they just sound sooo much better.
eh? You do understand what lossless means, right? What nonsense.

One other thing to bear in mind, is that CDs often contain more audio data than just what is marked as a track in the table of contents. Some of which can turn out to be hidden tracks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_track

You will miss these, if you just rip the individual tracks. For a complete archive of everything that a CD contains, you probably want to use something like abcde (command-line front-end CD archiving tool) to get cdparanoia to rip the entire audio stream off the CD, then store it as FLAC with an embedded cue sheet containing the original table of contents and CDDB disc-id ... You can also embed cover graphics as well.

This process is the only sensible way to ensure you've archived absolutely everything off the CD. That said, support for playing direct from FLACs with embedded cue sheets isn't as widespread as general FLAC support, so it's best to transcode to a more portable format for actually playing ...

As someone else already mentioned, the hydrogenaudio forums are the best place for this sort of discussion.

Sam.

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