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Ambrosia's Maelstrom Ported to Mac OS X
There are lots of reasons why Ambrosia Software is cool and most of them have names like Apeiron, Barrack, Escape Velocity, and Maelstrom. Most old school Mac nerds know Ambrosia for their awesome arcade style games from the mid-1990's. I know I spent way too many hours playing Apeiron on my PowerMac 7100 in college when I should've been studying or writing that paper.When Ambrosia released a Mac OS X version of Apeiron a few years ago, I was ecstatic. I can clearly remember wishing also for a Mac OS X version of Maelstrom, my other favorite Ambrosia game. Sam Lantinga has been listening and has ported Maelstrom to run natively in Mac OS X. In this new version, there's even some network play so you can take on your friend or co-worker.
The accompanying readme file says that this version isn't supported by Ambrosia but is recommended highly. The game has been released under a GPL license. Shields up!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dan said 3:55PM on 10-26-2005
This was actually ported back in 2001 - the first native OS X game I had running on my Mac. My understanding is that it is really a 'port of a port' based on the linux version.
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Damien Barrett said 4:08PM on 10-26-2005
Thanks for the info, Dan. I must've missed this back in 2001 when it was ported. Well, I'm still excited to see it running.
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Radical Bender said 4:25PM on 10-26-2005
Oh man, this brings back a lot of memories.
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Raphael said 4:25PM on 10-26-2005
Yeah, I'd love to see Barrack on OS X, still boot into 9 sometimes just to play that one. And a nonsense game like "Harry the handsome executive" would also be cool.
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Kyle Jones said 7:17PM on 10-26-2005
Yea, this really does bring back those good ole days, me sittin at home 'sick' from school playin maelstrom on my dad's Mac Performa.. And Escape Velocity, I spent half my childhood playing that.
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AKMA said 8:30AM on 10-31-2005
Gotta be Barrack next. Bring back Barrack!
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