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- Kudos and Criticism
- by Ambrosia Software Users
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- This section features reader responses to Ambrosia's software & service. We will
- include the good with the bad, and address any problems brought to our attention.
- These are real people writing real letters about real issues. Feel free to drop us a
- line.
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- Two sides of the same coin
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- Heads:
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- The money stealing was a great idea. It would have been a couple more weeks
- before I registered if it weren't for that. Good job guys.
-
- -- [Name Withheld]
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- Tails:
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- Thanks for having the shareware steal 87,000 of my credits. I was addicted to the
- game, but now I have stopped in disgust. I had purchased the previous version
- for $20 and was planning to buy the upgrade. Maybe I still might, but I definitely
- have a bad taste in my mouth.
-
- My point is that this is REALLY REALLY annoying. Especially at 12:30 a.m.
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- P.S. I DO have a lot of work, so maybe it's a good thing."
-
- -- [Name Withheld]
-
- I threw that one in just so I would have a hundred emails with your personal opinions about Hector, can't wait ;-)
-
- More EVO
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- While I love the expanded storyline and game morphology, I am having some
- problems with Override. First of all, if I were the publisher I would be pretty
- embarrassed about the ubiquity of spelling and grammar errors. You guys ever
- heard of SpellCheck?"
-
- --- Sean Mcgill
-
- I had gotten quite few emails pointing out the "misspellings" in EVO. I gave her my standard
- response. "EVO was developed by some British chaps, and they insisted on using the English
- spellings." She quickly responded.
-
- The spellings are not correct, is "forces" spelled "fores" in Britain, as it is spelled
- in the description of my ship. I've forgotten the name but it is the one called new
- fangled by the Strandless. These curt responses from your company seem
- innapropriate. I don't know what you make an hour but I've paid Ambrosia at
- least $100 in registration fees and am considering paying more. I don't ask that
- you spend more than a few minutes reviewing my notes, and perhaps checking on
- them if there seems some validity. At this point I will find every spelling error I
- can to dissuade you of assumptions."
-
- Well she quickly shut my mouth. I don't think even them blokes spell forces f-o-r-e-s. I also
- reviewed my policy and decided my answers were just fine. Just kidding. Since we released EVO I
- have come in with well over 150 emails every morning. I have been trying to roll through them
- while giving, and getting as much information as possible. I understand her feelings, she went to
- all the trouble of writing me, noting the problems she had encountered and then I answer with the
- cyber equivalent of a form letter. I apologize if I have been short with any of you. I really try to
- give a good answer to each and every email I get. If I haven't, then please, yell at me.
-
- Strokin' Dave's Ego
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- Hey, just tried your tip for getting rid of that display problem in EVO. Increased
- the memory allocation by 2 MB and my ship is back to normal, along with my
- escorts and all the other ships I encounter. I really appreciate your getting back to
- me so quickly--I kept playing despite the bug, but with my UE carrier and every
- other ship looking like a UE fighter, it got really confusing. Anyways, thanks
- again, and if I've said it once, I've said it a million times: you guys make great
- games. Keep it up.
-
- -- Alex Rubalcava
-
- We're Nice guys!
-
- I am a registered user of Snapz Pro. I have just downloaded and installed Snapz
- Pro 1.1.0. I was formerly unable to send my captured images using Snapz Pro
- 1.0.1 directly to my printer (I am using a Quadra 840 AV computer, LW 8.5.1
- printer software) without crashing. With the new version, NO CRASHES! Thank
- you. Also your policy of free upgrades is very generous. Again, thanks.
-
- -- Sam McDonald
-
- Praise Harry
-
- You don't have to send me a reply. I just wanted to tell you that I've entered my
- code and now I can't stop! Ben is a great game developer. Definite kudos to him.
- As a sidebar, I am disabled and have only the use of one arm/hand. Harry is great
- because it can be played with only one hand. So, on a personal note, many many
- thanks!
-
- -- Mr Adkerson
-
- We're still here
-
- Is Ambrosia still okay? I mean, I just had to ask this question. Except for the
- Override that just came out, there doesn't seem to be much action. Ambrosia
- Times hasn't been out for quite some time, and there hasn't been much action on
- your page. Also, when I followed your link to download.com it turned out that I
- was the first person to download override (screen shot enclosed). Still waiting for
- your great software yet to come!
-
- P.S. I took the screen shot with the registered version of Snapz Pro 1.01 ;-).
-
- -- Niki Miyake
-
- I had to smile at this one. I recieved it about a week after releasing Snapz Pro 1.1.0 and EVO.
-
- The Ambrosia Times was about a week late, but not due to inactivity, but due to too much activity.
- With all of the releases at once, we didn't have time to put the AT together. But I hope you can all
- see that Ambrosia is alive and kicking.
-
- For Weirdness Sake:
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- Thank you for making such a great game for the Macintosh! My wife and I are
- avid Mac and Escape Velocity fans. In fact, we liked it so much, we decided to
- change our last name to Velociteer a couple of months ago. Well, guess what?
- Three days ago I just found out my wife is pregnant! (Cigars for everyone!)
- Anyway, if it's a boy we're going to name him Patrick Escape. Well, what do you
- think? Beleive us, the honor is all ours, because of such a righteous game! Thank
- you so much!
-
- -- Nate Velociteer
-
- What can I say about that?
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