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Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Incorporated August 18th, 1993 by its president, Andrew Welch, Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Their primary method of business is shareware; they allow for 30 day trials of any of their software. Registration is voluntary, however, in most of the games if the user does not register they do not have full access to the program.

While the utility Snapz Pro has sold the most copies, Ambrosia is most notable for the distribution of games. The first game produced by Ambrosia was Maelstrom (basically an updated version of Asteroids with improved graphics), which became rather popular in the Macintosh community and won several awards. This initial success led to a string of similar arcade-style games being released. Other popular titles include the Escape Velocity series, the Macintosh version of Uplink, and Apeiron (recently ported to Mac OS X).

The unofficial mascot of Ambrosia Software is Hector the Parrot.

Titles

Anti-Productivity Software (Games)

Ambrosia Software's games include (in order of release date, latest at the top):

El Ballo
Darwinia - Mac OS X
port
Gooball
Apeiron X - Mac OS X
port of the original, with enhanced graphics
Aki
Uplink - Mac OS X
port
pop-pop
Bubble Trouble X - Mac OS X
port of original, with minor gameplay changes
Escape Velocity Nova
Coldstone
Deimos Rising
Pillars of Garendall
Ferazel's Wand
Ares
Cythera
Slithereens
EV Override
Mars Rising
Harry the Handsome Executive
Bubble Trouble - later ported to Mac OS X
, original no longer available
Avara
Escape Velocity
Barrack
Swoop
Apeiron - later ported to Mac OS X
, original no longer available
Chiral
Maelstrom

Ambrosia's announced upcoming games, as of March 2006, include:

SketchFighter 4000
Redline
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
Dragster - not on Ambrosia's upcoming page, not much is known about this product

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

Productivity Software (Utilities)

Ambrosia Software's utilities include (in order of release date, latest at the top):

EasyEnvelopes - Mac OS X v10.4
dashboard
widget
Screen Cleaner Pro - April Fool's joke
WireTap Pro
Snapz Pro X - Mac OS X
-compatible version of original
iSeek
Snapz Pro
ColorSwitch Pro
Eclipse

Community

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 10,000 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.

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