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End-of-day diversion: Glider Pro X

by Dave Caolo Aug 29th 2005 at 11:30PM

glider_proWay 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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Lewis

I'm also having trouble getting it to recognize the houses. I'm running Tiger on a 15" 1GHZ PB, just so you know.

August 31 2005 at 2:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John

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

August 30 2005 at 12:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

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.

August 30 2005 at 12:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nato

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.

August 30 2005 at 11:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
soda

Great! No need to boot my Macintosh LCII now. Shuffle Puck Cafee was a great little game running on mac os 7 also.

August 30 2005 at 11:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Martin Archer

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.

August 30 2005 at 11:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zach Sundstrom

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.

August 30 2005 at 3:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bagel

Cool. They have a t-shirt too! I think I'll be sportin' a Glider t-shirt in the very near future!

August 30 2005 at 3:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Johnny

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...)

August 30 2005 at 3:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Maynard

Apache Strikes and Crystal Quest for me!

August 30 2005 at 2:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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