Ambrosia Software

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Ambrosia Software
Type Private
Founded August 18, 1993
Headquarters Rochester, New York
Key people Andrew Welch — President
Industry Software industry/Computer and video game industry
Products Shareware games and utilities
Website http://www.ambrosiasw.com/

Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Incorporated August 18, 1993 by its president, Andrew Welch, Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Ambrosia's products are distributed as crippleware; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days.

Ambrosia's best-selling program is the utility SnapzPro[1], although the company is better known for the production and the distribution of games. The first game produced by Ambrosia was Maelstrom, a remake of the Asteroids arcade game. Maelstrom quickly became popular in the Macintosh community, and won a number of software awards.[2]

This initial success led Ambrosia to release several more arcade-style games. These included Apeiron (a remake of Centipede), and Swoop (a remake of Space Invaders).

The unofficial mascot of Ambrosia Software is Hector the Parrot.

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Ambrosia Software's games are, in order of release:

Ambrosia's announced upcoming games and utilities, as of September 2007, include:

  • Aquaria — Mac OS X port
  • Siege — not on Ambrosia's upcoming page, presumed inactive
  • Rockfall — not on Ambrosia's upcoming page, presumed discontinued
  • Cythera X — not on Ambrosia's upcoming page, presumed inactive

Ambrosia, in conjunction with DG Associates, has also released the Escape Velocity Nova Card Game.

Ambrosia Software's utilities, in descending order of release:

Ambrosia Software has gathered a sizeable following in the Macintosh community in part due to forum-based discussion of its products, and the outgoing personalities of the company's employees. Mainly supported through the company's web site forums and their IRC server (irc.ambrosia.net), the community lists over 20,000 members with support forums for each of Ambrosia's utilities and games, complemented by general discussion forums focusing on politics, graphics, games and general camaraderie.

One of Ambrosia's founding mantras was that shareware software should not be distributed as crippleware. The company's software was released on the honor system with only a short reminder that you had used the unregistered software for "x" amount of time; so-called nagware. This policy has since been changed and the company today employs typical shareware piracy prevention measures. Their software products now fall under the category of crippleware. An article in the company's newsletter, the Ambrosia Times, outlines the factors that played into the policy change.[3]

  1. ^ http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/23/1836201&mode=archive
  2. ^ Into the Maelstrom. The Mac Observer (199-12-08). Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  3. ^ The Ambrosia Times Newsletter

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Ambrosia Software
Games Aki · Apeiron · Aquaria · Ares · Avara · Barrack · Bubble Trouble · Chiral · Cythera · Darwinia · DEFCON · Deimos Rising · The Adventures of El Ballo · Escape Velocity · Escape Velocity Nova · Escape Velocity Override · Ferazel's Wand · GooBall · Harry the Handsome Executive · Maelstrom · Mars Rising · Pillars of Garendall · pop-pop · Redline · SketchFighter 4000 Alpha · Slithereens · Swoop · Uplink
Software Coldstone game engine · ColorSwitch Pro · Dragster · EasyEnvelopes · Eclipse · iSeek · Screen Cleaner Pro · Snapz Pro · Snapz Pro X · WireTap Pro
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