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^ "Home-grown Ambrosia feeds software niche", Michael Saffran.

MacSlash (retrieved from the Internet Archive).

^ "MacSlash Interview: Andrew Welch of Ambrosia".

Matt Slot has written about the factors that played into the policy change. 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, meaning, for instance, that Cap'n Hector's attacks in Escape Velocity games cannot be stopped. Their software products therefore began to fall under the category of crippleware. This policy was later changed and the company employed typical shareware piracy prevention measures, 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.

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. One of Ambrosia's founding mantras was that shareware software should not be distributed as crippleware.

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Big Cheese Key X - Mac OS X-compatible version of original.

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Soundboard - Mac OS X Audio playback ("computerized cart machine").

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.

WireTap Studio - Audio recording, editing and master storage won a 2007 "Eddy Award" from Macworld.

iToner - iPhone custom ringtone transfer utility.

Snapz Pro X - Mac OS X-compatible version of original.

Later a Mac OS X v10.4 and Mac OS X v10.5 Dashboard widget.

EasyEnvelopes - Envelope printing Desk accessory.

ColorSwitch - Menu bar item to change monitor color depth.

FlashWrite - Text editor Desk Accessory.

Big Cheese Key - FKey to mask screen image from boss.Productivity software Īmbrosia Software's utilities, in order of release: Escape Velocity Nova - Universal Binary releaseĪmbrosia, in conjunction with DG Associates, has also released the Escape Velocity Nova Card Game.Apeiron X - Mac OS X port of the original, with enhanced graphics.Bubble Trouble X - Mac OS X port of original, with minor gameplay changes.Products Games Īmbrosia Software's games, in order of release: In late 2018, the company's last remaining employee announced that Ambrosia was officially shutting down operations. Nearly all of the company's ten employees were laid off in 2013, but Welch denied rumors of the company closing. In 1999, Cameron Crotty of Macworld wrote that "No other company has gotten so much mileage out of renovating mid-1980s arcade hits." This initial success led Ambrosia to release several more action games, including Apeiron (a remake of Centipede), Swoop (a clone of Galaxian), and Barrack (a clone of JezzBall). Maelstrom won a number of software awards. Ambrosia Software was incorporated August 18, 1993, by Andrew Welch after he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992. It used raster graphics similar in style to Atari's later Blasteroids (1987) and the Atari ST game Megaroids (1988). The first game distributed under the Ambrosia Software name was Maelstrom, a 1992 remake of the 1979 Asteroids arcade video game.