PAPalomides·Oct 15, 2025
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Avara
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avaraline / Avara
Avara
Port of the original 1996 game from Ambrosia Software.
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Port of the original 1996 game from Ambrosia Software.
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThis site design is one of the best retro Mac site designs I've seen. The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays.
If anyone's interested, there's an active HyperCard community with some fun projects. There's a Discord server, too. https://hypercard.org/
I found that community through the Avara community, a port of the classic Mac multiplayer networked mech shooter from Ambrosia: https://github.com/avaraline/Avara
Also, if you're into retro Mac stuff or just want nostalgia, the Infinite Mac project is amazing. You can run all the major Mac OS Classic releases right in the browser, you can drag and drop files from Macintosh Archive or Macintosh Garden onto the window, and you can even create an AppleTalk network between browsers: https://infinitemac.org/
In 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”For me, it was Avara. An online multiplayer FPS in 1996, when 3D graphics and the internet still felt like science fiction. The skill ceiling was high and games were very competitive. Shout out to the ®ed §quadron, the clan I was in. I am still in touch with friends I met in the game, more than 20 years later.
The game has been ported to modern OSs: https://github.com/avaraline/Avara/
There is a video of gameplay with commentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutG8KO4DsY
In The Rise and Fall of Ambrosia Software (2019)