End-of-day diversion: Glider Pro X
Way back in 1994 I was completely addicted to Glider Pro. For those unfamiliar with the game, it required you to fly a virtual paper airplane through a virtual house while avoiding obstacles like spinning fans, heating vents, candles...you know, stuff that's dangerous to a paper airplane. Once you got bored with the supplied houses, you could create your own with the house editor. Like I said, completely addicted.Tonight, completely on a nostalgia-fueled whim, I set Google after "Glider Pro," and lo and behold it's been ported to OS X...and it's free! This is probably old news, but I had no idea. The house editor is still OS 9 only, but several additional houses have been made available by the game's developer. I know what I'll be doing for the next couple of hours.
This has got me thinking: What other classic games have been ported to OS X that I'm unaware of? Anyone know of some good ones?
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JP said 12:04AM on 8-30-2005
NICE! I grew up playing this game for hours on end. I still think it is one of the best time killers in the world. Thanks for posting this up.
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ethan.feldman said 12:13AM on 8-30-2005
!!! I remember spending HOURS on that on my old LC575 !!!
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Flant said 1:09AM on 8-30-2005
What about Beyond Dark Castle... its OSX now and still as hot as ever! Oh, and old Prince of Persia too.
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Jesse Gillespie said 1:27AM on 8-30-2005
Now if they would just port shufflepuck cafe...
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Tom Maynard said 2:58AM on 8-30-2005
Apache Strikes and Crystal Quest for me!
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Johnny said 3:19AM on 8-30-2005
ScummVM is great! It is the engine for games like Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion and many more. It works really good on OS X. (And windows/linux/*bsd/pocketpc/palm/amigaos/beos/dreamcast to if you need it...)
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Bagel said 3:47AM on 8-30-2005
Cool. They have a t-shirt too! I think I'll be sportin' a Glider t-shirt in the very near future!
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Zach Sundstrom said 3:47AM on 8-30-2005
I remember playing this game, but I am having trouble downloading it at work because of "web security software". I just recently moved to Japan and have yet to get the internet at my house, so does any body have an alternative way to download this program for the OS X? Many thanks.
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Mart said 11:25AM on 8-30-2005
Isn't there money to be made from porting these old classics? Or is it too difficult to negotiate the roghts or licensing or something? I'd love to be able to play Crystal Quest or Crystal Crazy again. A lot of these games are playable if you get an emulator working, but that seems far too complicated to me.
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Nato said 11:27AM on 8-30-2005
I used to design Glider houses back in the day, and I've still got a few up on my Web site, should anyone be interested:
http://nathan.huah.net/glider/houses.html
It's a fantastic game, and I only wish the house editor had been ported to OS X.
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soda said 11:32AM on 8-30-2005
Great! No need to boot my Macintosh LCII now. Shuffle Puck Cafee was a great little game running on mac os 7 also.
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Steve said 12:05PM on 8-30-2005
I downloaded a OSX version of Marathon a while back...I will try to find the site again. Haven't played it, but I did see if it ran and it did.
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John said 12:39PM on 8-30-2005
I downloaded this product for the first time, excited to see where ya'll's excitement came from and I can't get it to recognize the Houses, and as such it won't run. I know this isn't a support site, but any thoughts?
best,
John
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Lewis said 2:27PM on 8-31-2005
I'm also having trouble getting it to recognize the houses.
I'm running Tiger on a 15" 1GHZ PB, just so you know.
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