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Greetings Glider fans! Well, it is 2014, and I have ported my old Glider game from 1997 over to Android for you to play on your current devices! The game is basically the same as before, I wrote an ANSI terminal emulator for Android to run the game's original C code pretty much unmodified via the NDK. You can use the touch screen controls on a mobile or tablet to emulate the arrow keys, and touch in the center to select. On an Android Wear device, you can touch the display on the edges to emulate the arrow keys. The wearable also allows you to tilt the device to emulate the arrow keys. If you have a game controller or TV then the game supports those controls as well.
This is *really
* old messy code that I wrote back when I was learning to program in C back in 1996. It was designed to run on text terminals over slow serial connections in my university Unix labs, which is why the graphics are the way they are! :)

Here are some links to the original game this is based on, written by John Calhoun back in 1990:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F3oUr2QPQ0https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glider/id482536700?mt=12http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/glider.html

Source code is available under GPLv3 here: https://github.com/waynepiekarski/android-glider

Category : Casual

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Reviews (5)

Ala. I. Nov 30, 2021     

not the same glider game I played in the early 90s on the macs at school.

Ntg. Feb 18, 2022     

The controls are confusing that's about it

che. s. May 2, 2018     

Dont understand how it works. Plane cant be controlled!

Geo. H. I. Oct 13, 2015     

Ooooooh boy, don't let me down! I remember playing on my ol' B&W Macintosh Plus,.. I LOVED IT!๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š in fact, the app search criteria I used was to hopefully find me a game similar, BUT IT IS THE EXACT SAME ONE, what are the chances๐Ÿ˜( funny though, I don't remember if I had beat it, so I hope to excite that kid in me)

Sam. K. Nov 14, 2014     

I never thought it would be possible to have graphics this amazing on Android...mindblowing!