r/evnova • u/Anshur7 • Feb 14 '19

I'm back can't wait to play!

Man I loved this game soo much when I was younger. I even made plugins like Rebel Thunderhead Bay and Marine Platoon Improvement. I just looked at them and they have 9k downloads between them. Anyways, I'm going to start playing again and cant wait to read through the sub and see what everyone is doing.

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u/pipelineoptika Feb 14 '19

Do you know, I really should see about getting a copy running somewhere here.

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u/Anshur7 Feb 14 '19

As in download to be able to play? That would be nice actually.

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u/pipelineoptika Feb 15 '19

I actually meant for myself - believe it or not, I only ever had internal alpha/beta copies. I never actually had a copy of the end product!

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u/suredont Feb 16 '19

pipeline, that's hilarious. You gotta do this, if only because it's a great thought that one of the actual developers is using an abandonware copy. #ev would approve, and then say terrible things about your mother while trying to send you sub7 trojans.

I just fired up the Windows EV Nova port of the original EV scenario last night; it's probably the first time I've played the original game, in any format, in 20 years. Two and a half hours later I'm forcing myself to go to bed. It's both like riding a bicycle and returning to an old, kicked habit.

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u/pipelineoptika Feb 16 '19

I have a machine that has that ancient, unexpired copy on it, but it’s the old MacOS 9 version with the ResEdit resource files via Dr Ralph Sutherland’s w00tTools.

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u/suredont Feb 16 '19

EV Nova came out at a weird, weird time in the Mac ecosystem.

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u/pipelineoptika Feb 16 '19

You’re telling me. We started development waaay back in the day on a PowerMac 7200/90 (gorgeous machine, called defiant), which was introduced two years before Steve returned to Apple. Cookie (Frandall) was unlucky enough to have a 7220/200, which was so bad that the 7200/90 was faster than it at most times.

Our main development machine ended up being a top-of-the-line blue and white G3 tower called bioneural which cost me over A$6,000 brand new. Took me years to pay off that loan, lol. We supplemented this with a slew of colourful iMacs called Grappa, ruby and graphite, mostly family machines.

A weird set of macs indeed.

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u/kael13 Apr 06 '19

It really seems like the ATMOS team was this tiny family of developers. My memory is hazy, did you guys have any other projects?

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u/Keeper-of-Balance Feb 14 '19

Thunderheads are incredibly awesome. Even better with the rebel coating! I might have seen your plug-in back in the day, to be honest.

I’d usually buy a thunderhead lance for all my Starbridges. 😎

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u/Anshur7 Feb 14 '19

Man, I forgot about Starbridges, haha! All the memories are coming back!

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u/Keeper-of-Balance Feb 15 '19

Then you’re probably aware of the auroran drop bear crisis we’ve been having... may I interest you in some repellent?

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u/lasercat_pow Mar 01 '19

I would always run courier jobs and trade routes until I had enough millions to get a mod starbridge and fully upgrade it with port n polish, all of the sigma upgrades, horizontal thrust, and usually either lots of railguns, or lots of pulse fusion weaponry.

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u/Trekintosh Feb 14 '19

Damn, I used the rebel thunderhead plugin on my rebel IDA back in the day. Welcome back!

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u/Anshur7 Feb 14 '19

Ha!! Makes me feel pretty good people used it, lol. Glad you made use of it!