Asteroids (SandwichCafe) Mac OS

  1. Asteroids (sandwichcafe) Mac Os X
  2. Asteroids (sandwichcafe) Mac Os 11

At its core The Galactic Asteroids Patrol follows the old tradition of 'blowing things up in outer space' games. However by making use of modern and very. Mac OS X 10.5/Intel.

Asteroids is a free version of the classic arcade game for Mac, written in Objective-C. There are few fancy features or special effects, but each level gets more difficult. Definitely good for 30. In Mac OS X you can just double-click the zipped file. If you have an older operating system, you may need to use a third-party program to open zipped files. AsteroidData6000.csv.zip This file should work well on most computers and spreadsheet programs. ZET runs on an Intel based Mac (OS 10.5 / 10.9+) ZET runs perfectly on OS X Mavericks. ZET 9 runs fine on a mac using a windows wrapper. Tested so far with WineSkin 1. Download wineskin & drop it to the applications folder 2. Launch wineskin and press update for latest wrapper 3. Press '+' to install wine engine 4. Press 'create new blank. Asteroids Widget for Mac lies within System Tools, more precisely Dashboard Widgets. This free Mac app was originally designed by Christopher Marks. The file size of the latest downloadable setup file is 61 KB.

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Ambrosia Software
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware, video games
FoundedAugust 18, 1993; 27 years ago
DefunctJuly 19, 2019; 21 months ago[citation needed]
HeadquartersRochester, New York, U.S.
Andrew Welch
ProductsSharewarevideo games and utilities
Websitehttp://www.ambrosiasw.com

Ambrosia Software was a predominantly Macintoshsoftware company founded in 1993 and located in Rochester, New York, U.S. Ambrosia Software was best known for its Macintosh remakes of older arcade games, which began with a 1992 version of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids from 1979. The company also published utility software. Its products were distributed as shareware; demo versions could be downloaded and used for up to 30 days. Later the company released some products for iOS. Ambrosia's best-selling program was the utility Snapz Pro X,[1][2] according to a 2002 interview with company president Andrew Welch.

In 2017, customers reported on Ambrosia's Facebook page that attempts to contact the company were unsuccessful and they were unable to make new purchases.[3] As of July 2019, the website is offline.

History[edit]

Ambrosia Software was incorporated August 18, 1993 by Andrew Welch after he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992.[4]The first game produced by Ambrosia was Maelstrom, a 1992 remake of the 1979 Asteroids arcade game. Maelstrom won a number of software awards.[5] This initial success led Ambrosia to release several more arcade-style games, including Apeiron (a remake of Centipede), Swoop (a clone of Galaxian), and Barrack (a clone of JezzBall). In 1999, Cameron Crotty of Macworld wrote 'No other company has gotten so much mileage out of renovating mid-1980s arcade hits.'[6]

Nearly all of the company's ten employees were laid off in 2013, but Welch denied rumors of the company shutting down.[7] In late 2018, the company's last remaining employee announced that Ambrosia was officially shutting down its operations.[8]

Products[edit]

Games[edit]

Ambrosia Software's games, in order of release:

  • Maelstrom — Asteroidsremake
  • Chiral
  • Apeiron — Centipede remake
  • Swoop — Galaxian clone
  • Barrack — JezzBall clone[9]
  • Bubble Trouble — Pengo remake
  • Harry the Handsome Executive
  • Slithereens
  • Cythera
  • Deimos Rising
  • Coldstone game engine
  • Bubble Trouble X — Mac OS Xport of original, with minor gameplay changes
  • pop-pop
  • Uplink — Mac OS X port
  • Aki
  • Apeiron X — Mac OS X port of the original, with enhanced graphics
  • Darwinia — Mac OS X port
  • DEFCON — Mac OS X port
  • pop-pop — Universal Binary release
  • Uplink — Universal Binary release
  • Aki — Universal Binary release
  • Mondo Solitaire
  • Aki — iPhone/iPod Touch release
  • Aquaria — Mac OS X port
  • Escape Velocity Nova — Universal Binary release
  • Multiwinia — Mac OS X port
  • Hypnoblocks

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

Productivity Software[edit]

Ambrosia Software's utilities, in order of release:

Mac
  • Eclipse — Screen saver CDEV
  • Big Cheese Key — FKey to mask screen image from boss.
  • FlashWrite — Text editor Desk Accessory
  • FlashWrite ][
  • ColorSwitch — Menu bar item to change monitor color depth
  • EasyEnvelopes — Envelope printing Desk accessory. Later a Mac OS X v10.4 and Mac OS X v10.5Dashboard widget.
  • Snapz
  • To Do!
  • Oracle
  • ColorSwitch Pro
  • Snapz Pro— Screen capture application
  • iSeek — Desktop search application
  • Snapz Pro X — Mac OS X-compatible version of original
  • WireTap Pro — Audio recording utility
  • Screen Cleaner Pro — April Fool's joke
  • Dragster — File transfer application
  • iToner — iPhone custom ringtone transfer utility
  • WireTap Studio — Audio recording, editing and master storage; won a 2007 'Eddy Award' from Macworld
  • WireTap Anywhere — professional virtual audio patchbay utility, enabling the recording of any Mac OS X application's audio output from within any Mac OS X audio application.
  • Soundboard — Mac OS X Audio playback ('computerized cart machine')
  • Big Cheese Key X — Mac OS X-compatible version of original

No 'Crippled' shareware[edit]

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, creating what is commonly called nagware.[10]

This policy was later changed and the company employed typical shareware piracy prevention measures,[11] as well as more innovative ones such as used in the Escape Velocity line of games where the team's mascot, Hector the Parrot (known in-game as Cap'n Hector), would use her heavily armed ship to ceaselessly attack players of unregistered copies after the trial period had expired. Their software products therefore fell under the category of crippleware.[11] Now that the company no longer provides new expiring license codes, customers who had purchased Ambrosia software are now treated as though they have expired trial versions, for instance meaning that Cap'n Hector's attacks in Escape Velocity games cannot be stopped.

Matt Slot has written about the factors that played into the policy change.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^'MacSlash Interview: Andrew Welch of Ambrosia'. MacSlash (retrieved from the Internet Archive). 2002-01-23. Archived from the original on 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  2. ^More information on Snapz Pro X
  3. ^'Ambrosia Software'. Facebook. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  4. ^'Home-grown Ambrosia feeds software niche', Michael Saffran. In RIT: The University Magazine, Vol. 10, #1
  5. ^'Into the Maelstrom'. The Mac Observer. 1999-12-08. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  6. ^Crotty, Cameron (January 1999). 'Mars Rising'. Macworld.
  7. ^Mathis, Joel. 'Despite layoffs, Ambrosia says it's still in business'. Macworld.
  8. ^'Bonus: The Rise & Fall of Ambrosia Software, '90s Mac Legends - PAX Aus 2019 talk'.
  9. ^Salvador, Phil. 'Barrack'. The Obscuritory.
  10. ^ abSlot, Matt (2002-03-11). 'The Plain Truth about Casual Software Piracy'. TidBITS. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  11. ^ abWelch, Andrew (2000-01-22). 'Ambrosia Times: President's Letter: On CDs and Shareware'. Ambrosia Software. Retrieved 2011-04-28.

External links[edit]

  • The Ambrosia Archive (a fan-run archive of Ambrosia Software installers)
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosia_Software&oldid=1010502760'

At a Glance

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Mac

I spent a fair chunk of my student days playing Asteroids in the college common room, but I’ve been disappointed by the various Asteroids clone that I’ve seen on the Mac App Store so far.

Violet Storm (Mac App Store link) isn’t a strict Asteroid clone, as you’re fending off waves of enemy ships rather than simply blowing up lumps of wandering space-rock, but it does capture something of the frantic shoot-em-up feel of my old favorite.

Originally developed for iOS, Violet Storm puts you in charge of a little space ship that you pilot around the screen using the WSAD buttons on your keyboard, while using your mouse to simply blast the living daylights out of the enemy ships around you.

You start out with a simple laser, but fending off successive waves off attackers earns you weapons upgrades, such as multi-laser blasts and deflection bombs that buy you more time by pushing away approaching ships.

The graphics and sound effects are completely over the top, with weapon effects that look like a psychedelic screen-saver and a thumping soundtrack that sounds like a 1985 disco club (which is either a good thing or bad thing, depending on your point of view).

The main campaign mode simply swamps you with wave after wave of enemies, but there are two other modes available as well. Sniper mode measures the accuracy of your shooting, while Speed Havoc challenges you to kill as many enemies as possible within a time limit.

Asteroids (sandwichcafe) Mac Os X

Macworld’s buying advice

Asteroids (sandwichcafe) Mac Os 11

If you can cope with the sensory overload then Violet Storm is pretty good fun. There’s not an awful lot to it, but it’s good, mindless fun for your lunch hour or after a few drinks down at the pub.