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Ambrosia Software
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware, video games
FoundedAugust 18, 1993; 27 years ago
DefunctJuly 19, 2019; 21 months ago[citation needed]
HeadquartersRochester, New York, U.S.
Andrew Welch
ProductsSharewarevideo games and utilities
Websitehttp://www.ambrosiasw.com
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TIP On a Mac with a wide color display, you can use the standard color panel to select and preview P3 colors and compare them with sRGB colors. System Colors macOS offers a range of standard system colors that automatically adapt to vibrancy (see Translucency and Vibrancy ) and changes in accessibility settings like Increase contrast and Reduce.

  • TIP On a Mac with a wide color display, you can use the standard color panel to select and preview P3 colors and compare them with sRGB colors. System Colors macOS offers a range of standard system colors that automatically adapt to vibrancy (see Translucency and Vibrancy ) and changes in accessibility settings like Increase contrast and Reduce.
  • This means you will need a late 2015 iMac 27-inch or newer, 2016 MacBook Pro or newer, 2018 Mac Mini, 2019 Mac Pro, 2018 MacBook Air, or an early 2016 MacBook or newer model computer.
  • This involves measuring the white point, black point and multiple color/gray swatches in between. For best results, make sure you disable any kind of controls the OS allows, like auto dimming the display, night shift, and matching ambient light. On the Mac, check the Displays and Energy Saver System Preferences.
  • ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.14.5 BuildVersion: 18F132 1.8.0 No issues Both with Full Animation Enabled or Disabled the game runs smoothly. (No fps command in 1.8.0) 1.9.0 Full animation Enabled: Game loop rate: 14.94fps (expected 33.33fps) Drawing rate: 14.96fps (expected 33.33fps) Video output rate: 35.99fps (expected 60.00fps).

Ambrosia Software was a predominantly Macintoshsoftware company founded in 1993 and located in Rochester, New York, U.S. 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. The company also published utility software. Its products were distributed as shareware; demo versions could be downloaded and used for up to 30 days. Later the company released some products for iOS. Ambrosia's best-selling program was the utility Snapz Pro X,[1][2] according to a 2002 interview with company president Andrew Welch.

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.[3] As of July 2019, the website is offline.

History[edit]

Ambrosia Software was incorporated August 18, 1993 by Andrew Welch after he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992.[4]The first game produced by Ambrosia was Maelstrom, a 1992 remake of the 1979 Asteroids arcade game. Maelstrom won a number of software awards.[5] 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.'[6]

Nearly all of the company's ten employees were laid off in 2013, but Welch denied rumors of the company shutting down.[7] In late 2018, the company's last remaining employee announced that Ambrosia was officially shutting down its operations.[8]

Products[edit]

Games[edit]

Pair & repair mac os. Ambrosia Software's games, in order of release:

  • MaelstromAsteroidsremake
  • Chiral
  • ApeironCentipede remake
  • SwoopGalaxian clone
  • BarrackJezzBall clone[9]
  • Bubble TroublePengo remake
  • Harry the Handsome Executive
  • Slithereens
  • Cythera
  • Deimos Rising
  • Coldstone game engine
  • Bubble Trouble X — Mac OS Xport 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
  • Darwinia — Mac OS X port
  • 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 v10.5Dashboard 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

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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.[10]

This policy was later changed and the company employed typical shareware piracy prevention measures,[11] 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. Their software products therefore fell under the category of crippleware.[11] 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, for instance meaning that Cap'n Hector's attacks in Escape Velocity games cannot be stopped.

Matt Slot has written about the factors that played into the policy change.[10]

References[edit]

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  1. ^'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.
  2. ^More information on Snapz Pro X
  3. ^'Ambrosia Software'. Facebook. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  4. ^'Home-grown Ambrosia feeds software niche', Michael Saffran. In RIT: The University Magazine, Vol. 10, #1
  5. ^'Into the Maelstrom'. The Mac Observer. 1999-12-08. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  6. ^Crotty, Cameron (January 1999). 'Mars Rising'. Macworld.
  7. ^Mathis, Joel. 'Despite layoffs, Ambrosia says it's still in business'. Macworld.
  8. ^'Bonus: The Rise & Fall of Ambrosia Software, '90s Mac Legends - PAX Aus 2019 talk'.
  9. ^Salvador, Phil. 'Barrack'. The Obscuritory.
  10. ^ abSlot, Matt (2002-03-11). 'The Plain Truth about Casual Software Piracy'. TidBITS. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  11. ^ abWelch, Andrew (2000-01-22). 'Ambrosia Times: President's Letter: On CDs and Shareware'. Ambrosia Software. Retrieved 2011-04-28.

External links[edit]

  • The Ambrosia Archive (a fan-run archive of Ambrosia Software installers)
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosia_Software&oldid=1010502760'
Macintosh Color Classic / Color Classic II / Performa 250 / Performa 275
A Macintosh Colour Classic, running an Italian version of System 7
DeveloperApple Computer, Inc.
Product familyCompact, Performa
Release dateFebruary 10, 1993; 28 years ago
Introductory priceUS$1,400 (equivalent to $2,478 in 2019)
DiscontinuedMay 16, 1995[1] (CC II)
November 1, 1995 (Performa 275)
Operating systemSystem 7.1–Mac OS 7.6.1;With an upgrade of the original motherboard to a Macintosh LC 575logicboard – Mac OS 8.1
CPUMotorola 68030 @ 16 or 33 MHz
Memory4 MB onboard, upgradable to 10 MB; With logicboardupgrade: 64 MB, unofficially supports 128 MB of RAM (100 ns 30-pin SIMM)
Display10 inches (25 cm), 512 x 384 (switchable to 560 x 384)
DimensionsHeight: 37 centimetres (15 in)
Width: 25.2 centimetres (9.9 in)
Depth: 32.15 centimetres (12.66 in)
Mass10.2 kilograms (22 lb)
SuccessorMacintosh LC 500 series
Power Macintosh 5200 LC
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The Macintosh Color Classic (sold as the Macintosh Colour Classic in PAL regions and Macintosh Color Deluxe in Japan) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1993 to May 1995 (up to January 1998 in PAL markets). It has a 'all-in-one PC' design, with a small, integrated 10″ SonyTrinitron display (supporting up to thousands of colors with a video memory upgrade) at 512 × 384 pixel resolution.

The Color Classic is the final model of the original 'compact' family of Macintosh computers, and was replaced by the larger-display Macintosh LC 500 series and Power Macintosh 5200 LC.

Hardware[edit]

The Color Classic has a Motorola 68030 CPU running at 16 MHz and has a logic board similar to the Macintosh LC II.[2]

Like the Macintosh SE and SE/30 before it, the Color Classic has a single expansion slot: an LC-type Processor Direct Slot (PDS), incompatible with the SE slots. This was primarily intended for the Apple IIe Card (the primary reason for the Color Classic's switchable 560 × 384 display, essentially quadruple the IIe's 280 × 192 High-Resolution graphics), which was offered with education models of the LCs. The card allowed the LCs to emulate an Apple IIe. The combination of the low-cost color Macintosh and Apple IIe compatibility was intended to encourage the education market's transition from Apple II models to Macintoshes. Other cards, such as CPU accelerators, Ethernet and video cards were also made available for the Color Classic's Processor Direct Slot.

The Color Classic shipped with the Apple Keyboard known as an Apple Keyboard II (M0487) which featured a soft power switch on the keyboard itself. The mouse supplied was the Apple Mouse known as the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II (M2706).

A slightly updated model, the Color Classic II, featuring the Macintosh LC 550logicboard with a 33 MHz processor, was released in Japan, Canada and some international markets in 1993, sometimes as the Performa 275. Both versions of the Color Classic have 256 KB of onboard VRAM, expandable to 512 KB by plugging a 256 KB VRAM SIMM into the onboard 68-pin VRAM slot.[3]

The name 'Color Classic' was not printed directly on the front panel, but on a separate plastic insert. This enabled the alternative spelling 'Colour Classic' and 'Colour Classic II' to be used in appropriate markets. Heroquestrl mac os.

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The Macintosh Color Classic (sold as the Macintosh Colour Classic in PAL regions and Macintosh Color Deluxe in Japan) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1993 to May 1995 (up to January 1998 in PAL markets). It has a 'all-in-one PC' design, with a small, integrated 10″ SonyTrinitron display (supporting up to thousands of colors with a video memory upgrade) at 512 × 384 pixel resolution.

The Color Classic is the final model of the original 'compact' family of Macintosh computers, and was replaced by the larger-display Macintosh LC 500 series and Power Macintosh 5200 LC.

Hardware[edit]

The Color Classic has a Motorola 68030 CPU running at 16 MHz and has a logic board similar to the Macintosh LC II.[2]

Like the Macintosh SE and SE/30 before it, the Color Classic has a single expansion slot: an LC-type Processor Direct Slot (PDS), incompatible with the SE slots. This was primarily intended for the Apple IIe Card (the primary reason for the Color Classic's switchable 560 × 384 display, essentially quadruple the IIe's 280 × 192 High-Resolution graphics), which was offered with education models of the LCs. The card allowed the LCs to emulate an Apple IIe. The combination of the low-cost color Macintosh and Apple IIe compatibility was intended to encourage the education market's transition from Apple II models to Macintoshes. Other cards, such as CPU accelerators, Ethernet and video cards were also made available for the Color Classic's Processor Direct Slot.

The Color Classic shipped with the Apple Keyboard known as an Apple Keyboard II (M0487) which featured a soft power switch on the keyboard itself. The mouse supplied was the Apple Mouse known as the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II (M2706).

A slightly updated model, the Color Classic II, featuring the Macintosh LC 550logicboard with a 33 MHz processor, was released in Japan, Canada and some international markets in 1993, sometimes as the Performa 275. Both versions of the Color Classic have 256 KB of onboard VRAM, expandable to 512 KB by plugging a 256 KB VRAM SIMM into the onboard 68-pin VRAM slot.[3]

The name 'Color Classic' was not printed directly on the front panel, but on a separate plastic insert. This enabled the alternative spelling 'Colour Classic' and 'Colour Classic II' to be used in appropriate markets. Heroquestrl mac os.

Upgrades[edit]

Some Color Classic users upgraded their machines with motherboards from Performa/LC 575 units ('Mystic' upgrade),[4] while others have put entire Performa/LC/Quadra 630 or successor innards into them ('Takky' upgrade).[5] Based on Takky there is a way to upgrade the Color Classic with a G3 CPU.[6] Another common modification to this unit was to change the display to allow 640 × 480 resolution,[7] which was a common requirement for many programs (especially games) to run.

Models[edit]

Introduced February 1, 1993 (Japan only): Macintosh Performa 250, Deluxe III

  • Macintosh Performa 250[8]

Introduced February 10, 1993 (Japan, Asia, Americas) / March 16, 1994 (PAL regions): Macintosh Color & Colour Classic, Deluxe IV Seventh saga (7drl) mac os.

  • Macintosh Color Classic[9]

Introduced October 1, 1993 (South Korea) / September 9, 1994 (Japan): Macintosh Performa 275, Color Deluxe

  • Macintosh Performa 275[10]

Introduced October 21, 1993 (Japan, Asia, Canada)[11] / December 3, 1994 (PAL regions): Macintosh Color & Colour Classic II, Color Deluxe CD

  • Macintosh Color Classic II[12]

Timeline of compact Macintosh models

References[edit]

  1. ^Paul Kunkel (August 24, 2000). 'A Long-Discontinued Macintosh Still Thrills Collectors to the Core - New York Times'. The New York Times.
  2. ^'Mac Color Classic'. Low End Mac.
  3. ^'Macintosh Color Classic II / Performa 275'(PDF). Apple Service Source.
  4. ^''Mystic' Upgrade Questions'.
  5. ^''Takky' Upgrade Questions'.
  6. ^''G3' CPU Upgrade'.
  7. ^''640x480' Screen Resolution Upgrade'.
  8. ^'Macintosh Performa 250:Technical Specifications'. Apple.
  9. ^'Macintosh Color Classic: Technical Specifications'. Apple.
  10. ^'Macintosh Performa 275:Technical Specifications'. Apple.
  11. ^http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-color-classic-ii.html
  12. ^'Macintosh Color Classic II: Technical Specifications'. Apple.

External links[edit]

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