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mac-cellar
128 MB  Posts: 176 Gotta love System 7 
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on: August 15, 2024, 21:02
Today, a posting appeared in my Mastodon feed about a license key decoder for titles from the now defunct Ambrosia Software. It is called Decoder Ring. It was posted on Macintosh Garden just recently by an Andrew Welch who claims to have been the president of Ambrosia. The tool is for Mac OS X only, and seems to require a recent Mac and MacOS. I've not tried it, but I plan to later today. Ambrosia games like Apeiron were some of my favorite Classic Mac games back in the old days. It would be nice to be able to generate license keys for them. The link is below: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/decoder-ring |
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: August 16, 2024, 10:01
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That's great news for every System 7 gamer, as Ambrosia's games were among the best (Escape Velocity <3 ). They also had particularly nasty copy protections, like in EV, where you don't get a negative response after entering an incorrect key, but you get hunted by an omnipotent enemy that makes the game near impossible to play ... So a big thanks to Andrew Welch for giving this software away. They've done an amazing service to Macintosh gamers and were a big part of my Macintosh experience during the 90's. Their "Ambrosia Times" e-Zine about the company, their games and the communities around them was a great read at a time when most companies were these grey anonymous corporations.
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MTT
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256 MB Posts: 394 SSW7 Oldtimer
Reply #2 on: August 17, 2024, 04:52
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The Decoder Ring was uploaded to the MG earlier in January this year, not by Andrew Welch, but by an individual going by the name "tuxedojack", who incidentally created his account for that onetime upload, and hasn't logged back in since. Not to say that he won't again in the future, just noting that he hasn't done so in the 7 months since. tuxedojack in his page description for the Decoder Ring, alludes the origin of the Andrew Welch connection of this software, to an Ambrosia fan site, and a post made by a person going by the name "bimmylee", also a one-time poster, on that site. bimmylee made the claim that he had managed to contact Andrew Welch because of not being able to register his "Redline" game and quote: "Once I successfully tracked down Andrew, he was more than happy to send me the Decoder Ring app, which is the stuff of legend." bimmylee's backstory here - or in context, scroll down to his post, here (https links). Now as much as I would like to believe that Andrew Welch openly provided his key gen to the entire backlog of Ambrosia software for this one-off game-saving event to one unknown individual, I am very skeptical that this actually occurred. It may be possible that one of his past developers had this software and at one time had given it to a friend and that friend gave it to another, and so on. There could be several backstories to how this software actually came to find itself in the wild. I just rather that Andrew Welch had personally made this announcement that he was giving the Decoder Ring to the world. Who knows, maybe he will one day.
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