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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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Products GamesĪmbrosia Software's games, in order of release: In late 2018, the company's last remaining employee announced that Ambrosia was officially shutting down its operations. Nearly all of the company's ten employees were laid off in 2013, but Welch denied rumors of the company shutting down. 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 arcade-style 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. The first game produced by Ambrosia was Maelstrom, a 1992 remake of the 1979 Asteroids arcade game. HistoryĪmbrosia Software was incorporated August 18, 1993, by Andrew Welch after he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992. As of May 2021, the website resolves but leads to a domain parking page with ads unconnected to the company. 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. Ambrosia's best-selling program was the utility Snapz Pro X, according to a 2002 interview with company president Andrew Welch. Later the company released some products for iOS. Its products were distributed as shareware demo versions could be downloaded and used for up to 30 days. The company also published utility software. 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. Ambrosia Software was a predominantly Macintosh software company founded in 1993 and located in Rochester, New York, U.S.
