Real Atari 800 - M.U.L.E. Title (NTSC 60Hz)

This is the Atari 800 M.U.L.E. title theme recorded from a real Atari 800, NTSC machine. It sounds a wee bit less off-key in certain places than it's PAL counterpart (listen to it here: • Real Atari 800 - M.U.L... ). The wee bit off-keyishness is due to the fact that the Atari sound chip could only be addressed with 8bit frequency values, which sometimes do not hit the harmonic scale frequencies exactly. It is amazing how the programmers/computer musicians back in the day managed to work around these deficits and produced earworm tunes like this!
M.U.L.E. 40th Anniversary Special Report: www.worldofmule.de
Recording Equipment:
Atari 800 (NTSC, with SVideo out)
Retrotink 5x Pro (HDMI out 1080p50-Fill, H.Sampling 4:3 Generic, PVM-600 Post Processing)
AVerMedia Live Gamer Mini GC311
recorded with 1920x1080@60fps (H.264)
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[@CandyHatsuneWolff]

Oof! Grew up on C=64 NTSC and I didn't know what people meant by this being off-tune. Thank you for preserving it! Also a fun little reminder that EA was once ECA, probably before it bought out hell and filled it with lootboxes.

[@quantillionstudio]

I heard that theme in Spore too!

[@CarpeLudumGGS]

Yes this is how Spore designer Will Wright honored M.U.L.E.'s legacy :-)

[@puzzud]

Despite favoring the C64 version, I much prefer the brown from the PAL version.

[@jorowi]

Wow. I’m 10 again!