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This one has pretty heavy nostalgia for me. Resedit is a big part of why I'm in software development today. My first forays into "hacking" were to use Resedit to modify some nagware to skip the pay screen. It was a definite peek behind the curtain moment that made me much more curious about computing.

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Same for me, my first foray was making changes to the game Escape Velocity using ResEdit, then I used it on anything and everything, then as soon as official modding support came out for games like Myth, Doom, Marathon, etc, I starting making mods, and then it was coding and so on. :)

Same! Escape Velocity and its sequels were at a very important point of learning software development for me. I didn’t get in to game dev, but being on the ambrosia software IRC server taught me a lot of things.

It’s significant to my dev roots too. I had both the OS itself as well as several apps customized, with the most extensively modded being a totally rebranded Netscape Communicator with custom iconography. I also used it to mod games, doing things like changing sounds something silly or replacing 2D characters with pixel-versions of my siblings.

It was always a bit disappointing to come across the odd program (usually cross platform stuff) that had little or nothing that could be edited in ResEdit.

The classic Escape Velocity Nova used ResEdit as it's official modding support

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10504182

Ah yes, ported software. Nast.

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