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by mpetrovich 1422 days ago
Anyone else remember playing Glider? As a young kid, I gladly lost countless hours trying to navigate a paper airplane through a Rube Goldberg mess of obstacles. What a fun, imaginative game.

Would be cool if there was an emulated version somewhere. Or we could borrow the author’s book and transcribe it to a modern language, ha.

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You are in luck. author open-sourced it.

https://github.com/softdorothy/GliderPRO

also glider 4.0 is there also. Along with some of his other games.

I think I played Glider on an educational CD-ROM perhaps, even one about air and science? Or maybe it was just a shareware disc.
you can play several versions at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/software?query=glider&and[]=subj...
Hell yes! It showed up on at least a few Shareware diskette bundles back in the day.