I always forget the names of the EV clones whenever someone hits the nostalgia button, so i'll just say 'before halo, bungie made marathon which was so far ahead of its time that even unreal couldn't touch it until unreal: Tournament.īBEdit has a pretty strong ethos of 'giving the user what they need' over what they ask for or what they want. Fully extensible, user editable, great sounds (although some of the new ones just wholesale rip off the EV sounds), 6 different ways to play through and get an actual ending, etc. Of course Space Pirates and Zombies tried (and the second one even made a huge leap like ev:nova did!), but none of them have the software engineering charm that made EV what it was. there's a few EV clones out there, a couple on steam. IrFanView is an amazing piece of software, now a little long in the tooth as well, that does many amazing things with directories of images - but it still can't do sorting slideshows. So if you were a photographer, you would load your images from the camera, and have 'keep', 'maybe with edits', and 'archive' folders set to 1, 2, and 3. You could press Command+number, and the image would be moved from whatever folder the slideshow was in to whatever folder you set up for that number. It had a folder sorting slideshow mode, and it was, non-hyperbole, the best feature of any image app ever. I remember BBedit, RESedit, and the one i miss the most, graphic converter. I really enjoyed most of their games, but ev:nova was 3 games in one. When did ambrosia leave the scene? i remember emailing them maybe 5-10 years ago asking about all the EV keys i bought.

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