This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don’t need it doesn’t matter anymore lol.

  • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Old enough to remember the Ambrosia Software game, Escape Velocity? That game had a shareware setup involving a really powerful ship that would message you several times in a game and eventually get so annoying it was almost impossible to play. If you accidentally shot him, he’s ruin you. Oh, gone are the days of true “try before you buy.”

    • davidturner@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I remember this game being one of the reasons I love Macs so much as a younger kid. Zooming around and then this guy showing up “remember to buy the game” and then, eventually, it becoming a game of seeing if I could leave a system before getting wrecked by him.

      Good times.

      If you happen to miss those days, check out Endless Sky. It’s a free remake of the game for more modern machines. Still under active development.

      • DerMann@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Thanks for the nice anecdote and reccomendation Gonna see how it runs on my steam deck.

        • LordTrychon@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          On Android Space RPG3 (free) and Space RPG4 ($3?) are really good spiritual successors as well.

          Some of the original team are also working on a spiritual successor. Have been for a while. Don’t remember what it’s called though.

      • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Usually, not intentionally. More, I was defending myself and he was buzzing around me like a moth on a summer porch light when a stray laser beam hit his ship. :(

    • kittyrunningnoise@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      lol, EV was special. It was also pretty easy to mod with plug-ins using macos resource fork hackery, even to a kid, and all of the original game data was replaceable just by creating something with the same ID in a plug-in. Cap’n Hector became an angry invincible shuttlecraft with a single laser cannon. now that I’m old enough to afford a license, the company is gone and there’s no way, so I guess I’m stuck with him like this forever.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I remember the name ambrosia software but dont recall that game. Sounds like a good experience to remember!