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I laugh when I see some of the rooms. I realized some time ago that the houses/rooms reflected where I was living at the time — what I was doing. Cracked walls, exposed pipes, milk crates as furniture ... that would be the college ghetto where I was living when I wrote the first versions of Glider. Take a look at the latest versions of Glider for Mac OS (and iOS) to see how my tastes have changed (okay, the milk crate stayed in the game for nostalgia but come on, the boom box from Glider PRO is now swapped for a nice tube amp!).
The origins of Glider go back to a little demo-thing I experimented with on the Commodore 64 (of all machines). Using fairly simple graphics, I created a little program in BASIC in which there was just a vent on the floor and a paper glider. You could make the glider move left and right — over the vent it would rise, otherwise it would fall to the floor. As simple as it was there was something amusing about it.
Years later when I got my first Mac Plus and began trying to write games on it, I remembered the little paper airplane demo. Obviously that became the black and white shareware Glider. I did a few other shareware games but Glider seemed to be the most popular. So the B&W shareware version saw 2.0, 3.0...
I called Casady & Greene, a software publisher based in California, and just asked them if they wanted to publish a future incarnation of Glider. Sure, they said, but it needs to be in color and have a bigger "house". They even comped me my first color Macintosh (a Mac IIsi in case you care) so that I could write it in color. :-)
Casady and Greene asked Gregg Bieser to port Glider to Windows. I have never seen the sources for his port. It was faithfully ported however. If you look around the web you should be able to find the binary to download.
![Glider for Windows](http://www.old-games.com/screenshot/2212-1-glider-for-windows.jpg)