Vₑ — Escape Velocity, recreated

Drop your own copy of the classic Mac game and it's decoded right here in your browser — nothing is uploaded. · Source

Drop your Escape Velocity … .sit here

…or click to choose the file. Everything stays on your device.

Don't have the game?

Vₑ is only the engine — it ships none of Ambrosia's art, sound, or story, so you bring your own copy of the original Mac game. The archived download on Macintosh Garden works: grab Escape_Velocity_1.0.4.sit and drop it here as is (no need to unpack it). Any StuffIt 5 archive of the installed game folder works too, including 1.0.5.

The installer and updater downloads won't load (they're a proprietary installer format, not the game files). Escape Velocity Nova and Override are different games.

builds the engine from your data and plays it here — one-time, ~10 s

Plug-ins (optional) override or add ships, missions, tuning — applied top to bottom

Ships

Title art

Sound

Decoded entirely in-browser: StuffIt 5 unpacking, QuickDraw PICT → pixels, sprite+mask compositing, and snd → audio — no server, no external tools.