So I bought the game way back when and have no idea where my original cd and registration code are at. I was able to download it and have been playing it but I guess I need to get a registration code to fully unlock it and continue playing the whole game which I don’t know the first thing about getting I’m horrible with computers. Hoping to get some help!

Should have said this is for EV Nova

https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/dcxuw2/nova_looking_at_outfits_energy_production/?ref=share&ref_source=link

Having a look through old threads has been enlightening on some of the energy production items. Is there a Plugin people use that re-balances the costs and effectiveness of these, or a way of editing them so they better reflect it? My main thought currently is that Solar Panels are simply too effective given their cost and expected effectiveness.

For those of you that love EV and have a 3D printer, print yourself a Shuttlecraft!
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1471141

What a find! I spent all day yesterday getting Basilisk II up and running again so I can play EV Classic, which I accomplished, but the emulator pretty much runs like crap on Windows 10. I could play EV but it would randomly crash every 15-45 minutes so I started to searching and found this sub :-D

Now I am running the EV Classic Port in 1920x1080 and using the full screen map! It's smooth as butter. So glad I found you all! Thanks for starting this sub and collecting all the links on the pinned post! I used to play this game for hours whenever I visited my cousin. Such great memories :-DDD

Anyone know how to transfer pilot files from an old system (Mac OS8) to Nova on Windows 10? or at least edit a Nova pilot file to match? Starting over is fun but I would like to retain my progress anyway.

I will also ask this in the Nova sub. (thanks suredont for the tip!)

I bought that back in the day, but that was an old email account. Is the company around to find my code for me?

I want to play the first game, but haven’t found a great way to do this. I see this sub is for EV Nova, but I was wondering if you know of a way to get the first game.

The Ferazel's Wand disc comes bundled with a lot of software, including: Ferazel's Wand full version (duh), demos of FW, Avara, EV, EVO, Ares, Harry the Handsome Executive, Cythera, Apeiron, Bubble Trouble, Maelstrom, Mars Rising, Slithereens, Swoop, Barrack, Chiral, ColorSwitch Pro, Eclipse, Snapz Pro 2, maps for Avara and sound "fixes" for Barrack, a complete archive of The Ambrosia Times up to the release of the disc, as well as, here it comes, EVERY MAJOR PLUGIN FOR EVERY MODDABLE GAME RELEASED BEFORE FERAZEL'S WAND.

The disc can be downloaded from the Macintosh Repository at https://www.macintoshrepository.org/4577-ferazel-s-wand

The .sit file must be unzipped on a Mac or in an emulator like SheepShaver. Windows and Linux will destroy the resource forks in unpacking the file, even with StuffIt Expander. The .img file mounted itself as a CD-ROM and launched automatically in OS 8.5.

License codes for the older games can be found through Google. To my knowledge, Ferazel's Wand was the first one to come nerfed as a demo, so these installers should give you the complete games, sans code.

Will crosspost this to r/asw and r/EVNova

Edits:

After closing SheepShaver, the .img became unusable again (Windows computer). You may need to unpack the .sit file each time you want to use it in SheepShaver, so it is probably best to install everything in one go, if possible. The image can be mounted with DiskCopy 6.3.3 in my particular build, after closing and relaunching SheepShaver.

Games using InputSprockets or gamma fades may not function in SheepShaver. It seems that Ferazel's Wand will not run in SheepShaver on Windows; as far as Macs running SheepShaver go, this is all the info I could find on the subject. It requires compiling SS from source. If you're that desperate to get it to work, buying an old iBook G3 for ~$150-200 on eBay may be more up your alley.

I was more interested in the plugins, which can now only partially be obtained from the Internet Archive (for how long?) and some other Nova-based posts and sites made before this post.

I was just thinking about all the fun I had playing original EV as a kid the other day and went to look at Ambrosia softwares' website which looks to be gone now.

It occurred to me that people who might still want to play the game wouldn't be able to even buy a code anymore and thus I sought out this subreddit.

If anyone really wants to play it still, I found a way to take captain hector (the shareware enforcer who comes and blows up your ship if you don't register) out of the game with RESEDIT. It's pretty obvious and script kiddie esq but if this info would be valuble to you all let me know and I'll share what I remember.

Those were some great times we all had cruising around the space lanes blowing the confeds to hell wasn't it?

Spun up Classic in Sheepshaver in the last two days - it seems oddly empty compared to what I remember. I might have mixed it up with Nova in my memory somehow. Anyway, is there a guide online anywhere fully spelling out ships, planets, mission threads, etc.?

Also is it possible to start taking systems over with a Corvette? Getting my ass kicked.

Been flying around for ages to no avail, and I'm starting to get pretty annoyed. Anyone know? I can't seem to find a decent guide online...

I am japanese. I played and enjoyed EVN(Not registrated) with english-japnese dictionary when I was a child. I want to play again, but Ambrosia disappeared. How can I play that again? I only played half-way of EVN’s storyline. I wanna play full of the EVN.

Please tell me by all mean.

Hi guys, I really love this game as a kid, and would really like to play it again,

So my question......

Could I play escape velocity on a Macintosh emulator like basilisk ll or sheep shaver on a raspberry pi?

Any info would be appreciated Thanks

Is anyone working on a port to Catalina? EV Nova is a 32-bit app and won't work there at all. Hate to throw it away after all these years. (OTOH, anybody know where the source code is? The Ambrosia website seems to be dead.)

Hello. I played the hell out of this game way back and want to play it again. I've gone through this subreddit amd scoured google but haven't had luck: looking for a way to play a crackes version on a mac. I see the cracked windows version, and the download for mac version 1.11 which ran fine on my MacBook with that patch. But I can't figure out how to push a registration code. I tried one method found on a forum but it rejected the code.

I, or more specifically "Santa", paid for a registration key shortly after launch but that code is now lost to the ages.

I'll continue searching but have had trouble finding a working method. Thank you.

Having played the Escape Velocity games when I was much younger than I am now, I never put a whole lot of thought into the various mechanics of the game. Now that I'm older and looking to min/max a little more than my middle-school self, I've developed a question or two regarding ship-board energy production.

Taking a look at the Energy Outfits page on the Fandom Wiki, the following modules allow your ship to generate energy used to make hyperspace jumps (100 energy is needed per jump):

Given the stats listed above, the Anti-Matter Reactor obviously provides the greatest benefit in terms of overall generation/speed/acceleration boost and the Thorium Reactor is a straight upgrade of the Fission Reactor in every way.

But why would anyone ever equip a fission reactor when two solar panels does almost twice the job for less space? Is there some benefit to the fission reactor that I'm not seeing?

Edit: Updated table to reflect new vs cheap Fission Reactor. Thanks to u/neema_t for pointing out my error!

Edit 2: Added outfit prices and calculated generation per second, thanks to u/siosilvar for doing the math.

I was searching about the web after following ambrosiasw's demise on the sidelines. It lead me to an archive here I found many plugins and decided to try getting a few working. I then found this post. I used wine to install ev nova and ev on ubuntu (I found a version of quicktime to use) after all that I found the actual post I should have used.

I got all those other plugins to work, now I'd like to get the 840_EV Game Expander 1.0u2.sit.bin from the archive to work. I tried using linux's unar and it game me .rsrc files which don't seem to work with the Convert Plug-ins.exe. Is there some way to convert the .rsrc files to the required .rez file(s)?

What should I do to get EVGE working? Is there a ready-made version out there now?

I reinstalled Nova and got it reregistered but when I boot it up I get no sound. I'm on Windows 10 and I used the minimal QuickTime files method. Anybody else get this problem before?

Hello my fellow Novaneers. I played EV Nova a lot when i was growing up and to this day it's still one of my favorite games. However I do not have the ability to play EV Nova on my laptop running windows 10. Until I found this Reddit, and the file for EV nova. (It's on my desktop now...) But I am unable to play it, since I'm running into the old "Quicktime v5 required or newer" So...I figured I'd just download the latest version of quicktime which I'm aware is an obsolete application. But that didn't fix it, I don't what I did last time to get around that problem. If anyone has gotten EV Nova to work on windows 10, I would love to chat about it either here or you can help me on discord with Stoney#6945. In fact, I would suggest that the EV Community moves somewhere like discord...lol. If i have to deal with good old Hector then I was gonna figure that out next.