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ResEdit was a cool tool. I especially liked its built-in pixel editor. I remember my first "hacking" experiences as a kid replacing sprites in Ambrosia Software

ResEdit was a cool tool. I especially liked its built-in pixel editor. I remember my first "hacking" experiences as a kid replacing sprites in Ambrosia Software games. Tangent: there was a more feature-packed resource fork editor called Resorcerer, which I thought was clever and used as naming inspiration for my system-wide cursor hider tool, Cursorcerer: http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer

elheffe80 6y ago
I LOVED Ambrosia games! I used ResEdit for modifying EV games to my will. Then I had the pleasure of interning there. Greatest thing I ever did. That crew is nothing but amazing people!
kitsunesoba 6y ago
>I remember my first "hacking" experiences as a kid replacing sprites in Ambrosia Software games. Similar story here. I tweaked just about everything ResEdit could open and show graphical resources for. Netscape, IE, PangeaSoft games, random shareware games, the system itself, you name it. Seeing my edits in "live" software was a blast. It inspired a certain curiosity and made a little bit of how software works click in my head much earlier on than it would have otherwise.
- jdofaz 6y ago
  Maybe you saw this back then https://spacejam.com/cmp/souvenirs/iconsframes.html https://spacejam.com/cmp/souvenirs/iconsframes.html
eightysixfour 6y ago
Same, the Escape Velocity games (and my desire to mod them) were some of my earliest introductions to "hacking" or "programming" and getting an understanding of how things actually worked on a computer. There is a Kickstarter for a Remaster of EV: Override, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-frontier-override/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...
- wlesieutre 6y ago
  And one of the more interesting parts of that, Cosmic Frontier is aiming for data file and plugin compatibility with the old resource fork files (alongside an updated format for anyone making new plugins). There's a blog post from last year (before it was kickstarted) discussing some of the file format stuff: https://opennova.blog/2019/09/23/plugin-plans-in-kestrel/ https://opennova.blog/2019/09/23/plugin-plans-in-kestrel/
  - EamonnMR 6y ago
    You can follow along with that part of the project here: https://github.com/TheDiamondProject/Graphite https://github.com/TheDiamondProject/Graphite
    - eightysixfour 6y ago
      Looks like the whole game engine is on github: https://github.com/EvocationGames/KestrelEngine https://github.com/EvocationGames/KestrelEngine
markjenkinswpg 6y ago
EV was also my intro to hacking. I'm considering teaching a "intro to hacking -- by way of game mods" course at my hackerspace some day using Endless Sky or NAEV.

elheffe80 6y ago

I LOVED Ambrosia games! I used ResEdit for modifying EV games to my will. Then I had the pleasure of interning there. Greatest thing I ever did. That crew is nothing but amazing people!

kitsunesoba 6y ago

>I remember my first "hacking" experiences as a kid replacing sprites in Ambrosia Software games. Similar story here. I tweaked just about everything ResEdit could open and show graphical resources for. Netscape, IE, PangeaSoft games, random shareware games, the system itself, you name it. Seeing my edits in "live" software was a blast. It inspired a certain curiosity and made a little bit of how software works click in my head much earlier on than it would have otherwise.

jdofaz 6y ago
Maybe you saw this back then https://spacejam.com/cmp/souvenirs/iconsframes.html https://spacejam.com/cmp/souvenirs/iconsframes.html

eightysixfour 6y ago

Same, the Escape Velocity games (and my desire to mod them) were some of my earliest introductions to "hacking" or "programming" and getting an understanding of how things actually worked on a computer. There is a Kickstarter for a Remaster of EV: Override, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-frontier-override/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...

wlesieutre 6y ago
And one of the more interesting parts of that, Cosmic Frontier is aiming for data file and plugin compatibility with the old resource fork files (alongside an updated format for anyone making new plugins). There's a blog post from last year (before it was kickstarted) discussing some of the file format stuff: https://opennova.blog/2019/09/23/plugin-plans-in-kestrel/ https://opennova.blog/2019/09/23/plugin-plans-in-kestrel/
- EamonnMR 6y ago
  You can follow along with that part of the project here: https://github.com/TheDiamondProject/Graphite https://github.com/TheDiamondProject/Graphite
  - eightysixfour 6y ago
    Looks like the whole game engine is on github: https://github.com/EvocationGames/KestrelEngine https://github.com/EvocationGames/KestrelEngine

markjenkinswpg 6y ago

EV was also my intro to hacking. I'm considering teaching a "intro to hacking -- by way of game mods" course at my hackerspace some day using Endless Sky or NAEV.