Ambrosia currently has no plans to port Mars Rising to Windows. However, it's sequel, Deimos Rising has been ported to Windows. See above.

Developed by David Wareing, Mars Rising is the hottest shooter to hit the MacOS this century. The vertical-scrolling game puts one or two players in the cockpit of the prototype Vac-Fighter. Armed with a Wave Motion Gun and a bottom-mounted explosive payload delivery system, the Vac-Fighter is one hot piece of hardware - the perfect fighter-bomber for settling interplanetary disputes.

Mars Rising requires at least a 68K processor Macintosh running OS 8.6 to OS 9.6, capable of displaying 256 colors or greys, at a minimum resolution of 640x480 pixels (usually a 13" display). Mars Rising is not OS X native.

Mars Rising was written by David Wareing, who also wrote Swoop and cowrote, with Alex Metcalf, Bubble Trouble. Mars Rising is published by Ambrosia Software, Inc.

We are a web-based company and the latest version of Mars Rising is available for download on our website. You can also get all of our products on a single DVD. The Ambrosia DVD contains unregistered versions of all of our games and utilities. You can order this DVD from our web site at http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/Ware/ or you can call our order line 1.800.231.1816 (NOTE: This line is for placing orders only. They will not be able to answer technical questions, or retrieve lost codes.

Ambrosia offers software on a "try before you buy basis." Supporting us by registering our products -- assuming you like them -- is the only way you can ensure that we will continue to produce more high quality software. The unregistered version of Mars Rising will let you play to level four only, so you should register if you want to play the full 28 levels of the game.

However, the sequel to Mars Rising, Deimos Rising, has been released. Deimos Rising is OS X native and has been ported to Windows!

Gameplay is rather simple. You are the Vac-Fighter on the screen, you can move up, down and back and forth (default - arrow). Everything coming at you from the top of the screen is hostile and can be shot with your cannons (default - command). Rebel ground forces can be taken out with your bombs. The cross hairs in front of your ship are the bomb sights, when they light up red, bombs away! (default - option). Collect power-ups and stars as they appear. Gain points and kudos.

There aren't any cheat codes in Mars Rising. You can jump to higher levels by option clicking One Player or Two Player.

Mars Rising is written in C/C++. It utilizes Ambrosia's 4 channel 22kHz Sound_Tool for audio, Ambrosia's Monitor_Tool for monitor selection and special effects, and Ambrosia's Registration_Tool for the shareware license code system.

Mars Rising was programmed and designed by David Wareing with thanks to Alex Metcalf. Level design was done by Dave Wareing and Sheryn Wareing. Artwork was done by Dave Wareing and John Sledd of Sledd Studios. The music was written by Eric Speier of Speier Music Studios.

Mars Rising took over two years for David to write, from beginning, through testing and up to release.

Use pauses in the action to hold the fire key and charge your cannon. Try to aim it for maximum effect when you do; wait for enemies to line up on the screen and take out several at once. Enemies that make multiple shots tend to cluster them. If you can stay in the same spot while they target you, the shots will come in a straight line and are easier to avoid. Moving down when your ship is at the bottom of the screen shortens the crosshairs.

Mars Rising is not OS X native. Mars Rising requires a Macintosh running OS 7, 8 or 9. At the present time, we have no plans to port Mars Rising to OS X. Mars Rising's sequel, Deimos Rising, is OS X native, and has been ported to Windows. Check it out: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/dr/

By popular demand, EV Nova has been ported from the Macintosh to Windows by Contraband Entertainment. The Windows version of EV Nova can be downloaded from the Nova page on the Nova page here http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/

KDE offers a set of tools that allow us to make progress relatively quickly. The QT library on which it is based is one of the very best toolkits currently available. For now, RKWard is available only for Linux. We are very much aware that a Windows version would be a good thing. But as we rely on KDE, we have to wait for it to be ported to Windows, which should be done by the beginning of 2007. Until then, RKWard is a Linux-only app. >>

You can have up to 12 lives, including the active life. You get a free life at the first 10,000 points, then 30,000 points, and then every 30,000 + 10,000 for each new ship, so each new ship is progressively harder to get.

Your computer is running one Operating System which has to run another Operating System, which is running a game. OS X evolves further and further from the Classic OS, it's getting that much more difficult to emulate the old System on top of the new System. The only real workaround is to boot into OS 9 if possible.

This was a problem with the 1.0.1 version of Mars Rising. This is fixed in the 1.0.2 release. Go to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/mr/addons.html to download the 1.0.2 updater.

Go to the Mars Rising folder and select the application icon by clicking on it one time, then go to the File menu to Get Info. If it is any version prior to 1.0.2, go to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/mr/ and download the latest version. Before launching the update, throw out the preferences for Mars Rising. Go to your System/Preferences folder and drag the Mars Rising Preferences file to the trash. Then launch the game.

Triglycerides and cholesterols go up in about 15% of patients while they are losing weight. Triglycerides will come down if you persist with the diet and keep losing weight. They will also come down when you stop losing. There is no reason to measure more than every 3-6 months unless you go off the diet or they stop changing.

The Spiders From Mars were David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust's three-piece rock band from 1971 to mid 1973, however they were only officially known by this name following the album's release in June 1972. Bowie has said that the inspiration for the name came when he was writing the song "Ziggy Stardust". The band consisted of: quot;It was Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and somehow, along the lines, the Spiders got attached to David Bowie.

Probably the first place you should look for more GNU tools is at Cygwin toolset. The toolset is a port of the GNU tools to the Windows API, as well as a set of libraries that allow Unix programs to compile to Windows with little or no modification. The project is at http://www.cygwin.com/ Michael Main <main@cs.colorado.edy> has collected together ports of various Unix programming environments and languages to Windows for classes that he teaches. See http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/plcd.

Yes. Make sure that your DISPLAY environment variable points to the machine running MI/X, i.e. set DISPLAY=hostname:0.0 You can then run xclock, oclock, etc. on a PC running NT or 95 instead of using a remote UNIX host.

Yes. We already have working code in Linux, and we may add support for more operating systems in the future. Programmers out there should feel free to port Dark Nova to other platforms themselves.

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