History
Maelstrom was initially released in November 1992 as unlimited shareware. It was created by Andrew Welch, president of Ambrosia Software, and led to the formation of that company. At the time of its release, Maelstrom took full advantage of the Macintosh's multi-media capabilities and broke ground for further developments of the platform in the “anti-productivity software” arena. In 1993, Maelstrom received the Shareware Industry Award for Best Game. More recently, Ambrosia Software gave the source-code away to Sam Lantinga, who created a SDL port from it and released it in 1995 as Free Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Sam's version also included some novelties like networked multiplayer gaming. In 2010 Andrew Welch and Ian Gilman released the game's contents under the free Creative Commons license Attribution, which makes Maelstrom a completely free game.
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