video games founded august 18 1993 headquarters rochester new york u.s. key people andrew welch products shareware video games and utilities website www.ambrosiasw.com ambrosia software is a predominantly macintosh software company located in rochester new york u.s. ambrosia produces utilities and games . its products are distributed as shareware ; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days . ambrosia s best selling program is the utility snapz pro x 1 according to a 2002 interview with company president andrew welch although the company is better known for the production and the distribution of games . it was incorporated august 18 1993 by welch after he graduated from the rochester institute of technology in 1992 . 2 the first game produced by ambrosia was maelstrom a remake of the 1979 asteroids arcade game . maelstrom won a number of software awards . 3 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 . 4 at least half of the company s ten employees were laid off in 2013 but welch denied rumors of the company shutting down . 5 contents 1 products 1.1 games 1.2 productivity software 2 no crippled shareware 3 references 4 external links products edit games edit ambrosia software s games in order of release maelstrom asteroids remake chiral apeiron centipede remake swoop galaxian clone barrack jezzball clone 6 escape velocity avara bubble trouble harry the handsome executive mars rising ev override slithereens cythera ares ferazel s wand pillars of garendall deimos rising coldstone game engine escape velocity nova bubble trouble x mac os x port 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 gooball darwinia mac os x port el ballo redline sketchfighter 4000 alpha 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 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 .5 dashboard 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 . 7 this policy has since been changed and the company today employs typical shareware piracy prevention measures 8 as well as more innovative ones such as used in the escape velocity line of games where hector the parrot will use her heavily armed frigate to attack players of unregistered copies after the trial period has expired . their software products now fall under the category of crippleware . 8 matt slot has written about the factors that played into the policy change . 7 references edit 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 . home grown ambrosia feeds software niche michael saffran . in rit the university magazine vol . 10 1 into the maelstrom . the mac observer . 1999 12 08 . archived from the original on 8 june 2011 . retrieved 2011 04 28 . crotty cameron january 1999 . mars rising . macworld . mathis joel . despite layoffs ambrosia says it s still in business . macworld . salvador phil . barrack . the obscuritory . a b slot matt 2002 03 11 . the plain truth about casual software piracy . tidbits . retrieved 2011 04 28 . a b welch andrew 2000 01 22 . ambrosia times president s letter on cds and shareware . ambrosia software . retrieved 2011 04 28 . external links edit ambrosia software v t e ambrosia software games apeiron aquaria ares avara bubble trouble cythera darwinia defcon the adventures of el ballo escape velocity escape velocity override escape velocity nova ferazel s wand gooball maelstrom multiwinia pillars of garendall redline sketchfighter 4000 alpha uplink utilities snapz pro x retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ambrosia software & oldid 737160865 categories ambrosia softwarecompanies based in rochester new yorkmac software companiesvideo game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiescompanies established in 1993privately held companies based in new york navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 03 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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