[lftl]

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.

[saberience]

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. :)

[sitharus]

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.

[jwells89]

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.

[e_y_]

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

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

[JKCalhoun]

Ah yes, ported software. Nast.