Maelstrom (1992 Video Game)

Maelstrom (1992 video game)

Maelstrom is a 1992 clone of Asteroids with an improved interface and better graphics. Many of Ambrosia's subsequent shareware titles followed in a similar formula.

It was created using THINK C and uses 18,000 lines of C code with 9,000 lines of inline assembler.

Sam Lantinga created a GPL port that runs on many operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

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