Editing Ambrosia Software (section)

{{Short description|Defunct American software company}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Ambrosia Software
| logo = New Ambrosia Software Logo.png
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| industry = [[Software industry|Software]], [[Video game industry|video games]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1993|08|18}}
| defunct = {{End date and age|2019|07|19}}{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
| location = [[Rochester, Monroe County, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Andrew Welch|Dominic Feira}}
| products = [[Shareware]] [[video game]]s and utilities
| revenue = 
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| num_employees = 
| parent = 
| subsid = 
| footnotes = 
| homepage = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''Ambrosia Software''' was a predominantly [[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]] [[software]] and [[Mac gaming|gaming]] company founded in 1993 and located in [[Rochester, Monroe County, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S]]. Ambrosia Software was best known for its Macintosh remakes of older arcade games, which began with a 1992 version of [[Atari, Inc.]]'s ''[[Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]]'' from 1979. The company also published utility software. Its products were distributed as [[shareware]]; demo versions could be downloaded and used for up to 30 days. Later the company released some products for [[iOS]]. Ambrosia's best-selling program was the utility Snapz Pro X,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/23/1836201&mode=archive |title=MacSlash Interview: Andrew Welch of Ambrosia |publisher=MacSlash (retrieved from the [[Internet Archive]]) |date=2002-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231193241/http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02%2F01%2F23%2F1836201&mode=archive |archive-date=2007-12-31 |access-date=2011-04-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[[Snapz Pro X|More information on Snapz Pro X]]</ref> according to a 2002 interview with company president Andrew Welch.

In 2017, customers reported on Ambrosia's Facebook page that attempts to contact the company were unsuccessful and they were unable to make new purchases.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/AmbrosiaSW/|title=Ambrosia Software|website=[[Facebook]]|access-date=6 February 2018}}</ref> As of July 2019, the website is offline. As of May 2021, the website resolves but leads to a domain parking page with ads unconnected to the company.