Glider 1.0
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Glider - This is my old Glider game from 1997, developed using ASCII art graphics :)
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=8F3oUr2QPQ0
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glider/id482536700?mt=12
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/glider.html
Source code is available under GPLv3 here: https://github.com/waynepiekarski/android-glider
About Glider
Glider is a free app for Android published in the Arcade list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment.
The company that develops Glider is Wayne Piekarski. The latest version released by its developer is 1.0.
To install Glider on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2023-09-01 and was downloaded 4 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Glider as malware as malware if the download link to net.waynepiekarski.glider is broken.
How to install Glider on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Glider is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Glider will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Glider will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
