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SkiFree was originally written for VAX/VMS on VT100 terminals. Scroll down that page to see a small animated GIF showing where abominable snow monsters come from.
Just realized you have to run the yeti into trees to keep them from eating you... Feels like a good moment for a facepalm.
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The controls are wrong, too. Left and right should rotate the character, but right now they make him turn hard left and hard right. In the original there were also two degrees of left and right turning, so you could navigate with more precision. You could also turn fully horizontal and then use the up arrow to climb the hill sideways. Please fix this! :-)
I knew the original was somehow different too. Also, couldn't you right-click in the air to do tricks or something?
Twenty-nine comments and no one has posted the site of the author of the original SkiFree? http://ski.ihoc.net/ SkiFree was originally written for VAX/VMS on VT100 terminals. Scroll down that page to see a small animated GIF showing where abominable snow monsters come from.
1.) You can't press right twice to stop, then up repeatedly to climb.
2.) You can't press various arrow keys after jumping to do a trick pose that gives you extra points.
3.) There's only 1 degree of 'turning right', not two. Same w/ left.
Some differences from the original: 1.) You can't press right twice to stop, then up repeatedly to climb. 2.) You can't press various arrow keys after jumping to do a trick pose that gives you extra points. 3.) There's only 1 degree of 'turning right', not two. Same w/ left.
Some differences from the original: 1.) You can't press right twice to stop, then up repeatedly to climb. 2.) You can't press various arrow keys after jumping to do a trick pose that gives you extra points. 3.) There's only 1 degree of 'turning right', not two. Same w/ left.
Thanks again! Naturally, I encourage you to contribute with code if you are that way inclined :)
Time to make it an MMO with websockets.
Joking aside, it could be useful to implement ghosts [1]. You'd have to have non-random (fixed seed) tracks for this, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_%28video_gaming%29
amazing finally! you could do tricks though in the original one maybe an addition to patch on the following release ?
Wasn't this posted a couple weeks ago?