Ambrosia Software Web Board: Does anyone here talk about Ares? - Ambrosia Software Web Board

Posted 10 February 2005 - 04:10 PM

Posted 10 February 2005 - 04:12 PM

Posted 10 February 2005 - 04:17 PM

Check this out:

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php...findpost&p=9351

I did a search on "Changeling Software" at google and the very first search result were the Ambrosia boards

Interesting because I remember my father telling me he was in the beta for a game, but I never believed him. It looks like that had to be true otherwise I don't know how he would have gotten a copy of Changeling's version of ares. If I remember, when you died the screen would splatter blood and then slowly fill red

(P.S. I remember playing PegLeg too)

Posted 10 February 2005 - 08:57 PM

Posted 10 February 2005 - 09:59 PM

Swithich, on Feb 10 2005, 08:57 PM, said:

What versions run Ares the best. My old Imac runs 9 and Ares seems to work fine. I'll have to make sure my B&W can run Ares when I get it.

It should run ares fine in anything pre OS X. So I'd keep a bootable installation of OS 9 on your B&W if you want to play it.

Posted 10 February 2005 - 10:24 PM

Agent_Vast, on Feb 10 2005, 04:09 PM, said:

The problem under Panther is the vector sprites - replace them and Ares runs pretty smoothly under Classic.

Is doing that hard, and if no, 1) how do I do it, or 2) did you do it and, if so, can you send whatever you did my way?

Posted 10 February 2005 - 10:32 PM

The Real Darth Bob, on Feb 10 2005, 09:59 PM, said:

It should run ares fine in anything pre OS X. So I'd keep a bootable installation of OS 9 on your B&W if you want to play it.

Actually, I find that when Classic boots up as soon as you log in, the frame-rate becomes more acceptable, even playable if you have all your other apps closed.

Posted 10 February 2005 - 10:33 PM

Trah, on Feb 10 2005, 10:24 PM, said:

Is doing that hard, and if no, 1) how do I do it, or 2) did you do it and, if so, can you send whatever you did my way?

Yeah, same here. I must know.

Posted 10 February 2005 - 10:40 PM

Destroyer E, on Feb 10 2005, 10:33 PM, said:

Yeah, same here. I must know.

Combined with my method, we probably wouldn't need an Ares X.

Posted 10 February 2005 - 10:49 PM

Posted 11 February 2005 - 04:51 PM

Posted 11 February 2005 - 05:03 PM

Shrout1, on Feb 11 2005, 04:51 PM, said:

I think you have to have an OS that's older than like 7.6 - I remember trying to install and run it on an old performa at my high school and having no luck... That was a while ago though

I'll go ask my teacher with the old LC collection.

Posted 11 February 2005 - 06:03 PM

Shrout1, on Feb 11 2005, 04:51 PM, said:

I think you have to have an OS that's older than like 7.6 - I remember trying to install and run it on an old performa at my high school and having no luck... That was a while ago though

I ran it on my Centris 650 with System 7.5.3. It wasn't the fastest thing out there, but it still ran pretty well.

Posted 12 February 2005 - 07:43 PM

The Real Darth Bob, on Feb 11 2005, 10:03 PM, said:

I'll go ask my teacher with the old LC collection.

We have an old LC. It's awesome!

Posted 12 February 2005 - 11:56 PM

Destroyer E, on Feb 11 2005, 06:03 PM, said:

I ran it on my Centris 650 with System 7.5.3. It wasn't the fastest thing out there, but it still ran pretty well.

Ok - cool, then it looks like it goes a ways back into 7 - looks like Ambrosia didn't stick the minimum software requirements on the page for it either - too bad. Anyone else run it on something less than 7.5?

Posted 13 February 2005 - 11:11 AM

Shrout1, on Feb 12 2005, 11:56 PM, said:

Ok - cool, then it looks like it goes a ways back into 7 - looks like Ambrosia didn't stick the minimum software requirements on the page for it either - too bad. Anyone else run it on something less than 7.5?

My mother had an abominally old Performa that ran 7.2.x or 7.4.x. It broke down about a year ago- it got infected by the INIT 29A virus, along with ppat, and Sevendust, and the infection had been hiding on the HD for about three years.
I remember running Ares on it... It was totally slowed down to turtle-speed and below.

Posted 13 February 2005 - 11:21 AM

Posted 16 February 2005 - 09:45 PM

Destroyer E, on Feb 13 2005, 04:21 PM, said:

My old Quadra 605 ran System 7.1. I never ran Ares on it though.

Awww...memories of mac, back in the day...

Posted 22 February 2005 - 11:27 AM

Destroyer E, on Feb 9 2005, 11:49 AM, said:

I would have loved to play your plug, but I was running a Centris 650, and Ares 1.2.0 didn't work very well, so I was using an older version that doesn't allow plug-ins.

I have Ares on my eMac now, but it does not run very well as most of you said. There better be an update for it to work.

Can you say "Ares X"? I'm hopin'.

I talked to Nathan about the possibility of Ares X

hey Kirk,

I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to justify the amount of time
it would take to make a Mac OS X native version of Ares, either
financially or artistically. If it was trivial to update the code, I
would certainly do so -- but it isn't. If I thought it would be
financially or artistically rewarding to update the code, I would do it
-- but I don't think it would be. I'd much rather spend my time
creating something new than getting a seven-plus year-old game to work,
which was originally written to run on the 68020 processor.

That said, Ares is my "baby," my favorite creation, and so I have a lot
of affection for it. There are many boring, involved, technical hurdles
which would be need to be cleared to get it to be a Carbon application.
If I find an easy way to do it -- apart from surrendering Ares to
someone else -- I will.

Posted 22 February 2005 - 08:18 PM

kauthor, on Feb 22 2005, 04:27 PM, said:

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And a windows version?