Waking Up To Glider PRO!

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Adrian Membrez
I have been playing glider since I was 8 and I am now turning 17 tomorow. It all started out in the shareware B&W glider, I sent my check to john but his address bounced, I got glider 4.0 for x-mas and played that alot, I created manny crappy limited houses, I was so excited when I beat the Glider 4.0 House! Then Glider pro came out and I heard about it for such a long time and I played the demo over and over again...And for X-mas I got the Glider Pro CD! I was jumping up and down! I could not contain my joy for my new glider game. I loaded it up and started to play! Later on I discovered some glider websites and from there I created my own glider web page from wbs.net which turned into go.com which is now closed. Along with my glider Page I founded a glider pro club (Penguin127's Glider Pro Club) in the 2nd floor of the UCSC Library where my dad works. It started out with about 3 members and then others started to join! Now look at it! The club is still expanding!

I think it would be cool to hear everyones Glider Story! Post Em!

Andrew Dunning
I originally discovered Glider when it was at version 3.1, on one of the old shareware disks that used to go around before the Internet went mainstream. (I believe it was called "The Best of EduCorp".) That was with my Mac Plus, in the dying days of the 1980s. In later years, I always intended to buy one of the later versions of Glider, but never got around to it. When Casady & Greene met their sad end, and Glider was released as freeware, I rediscovered one of my favourite games. I haven't put it down since.

Chris
hmm... I think the first Glider game i played was Glider Pro... but i got it only with slumberland, or i didn't know how to change houses.... i don't really remember. I do remember that i found the house editor at a friends house, and i remembered i had the game, and started to play. i made a really huge house, like 400+ rooms but most of it sucked, and it got lost when i ran out of space, or had a system crash or something... oh it was when i changed from the old IIci to the 8500/80...then i forgot about the game for a year or so... that was around when marathon and shadow raith came out. (some of the few other greatest games for mac ever). nothin much happened on the 8500, i don't think i ever had it installed, then around 95 we moved to another house, a year later i got my blue and white G3 in my room. then i started to make some houses, all of which were lost, these had a bit of custom art... before i joined this club about 2 years ago i got the G4 i'm, on now. i made the Black Hole series, and found the club...

Dylan Jones
Hmm, I can tell you mine, but I won't explain in detail
1. Found Glider PRO on computers at the school which my dad teaches at
1b. Loved the game, took it home to my IIVX
2. Completed Demo House
3. Filled up Empty House, and experimented with stuff
4. Created about 10 s*** houses
5. Eventually got reasonable at making houses
6. Completed Slumberland
7. Created some good houses
8. Found Glider PRO on internet just out of a search experiment with Yahoo
9. Found Casady and Greene hall of fame house archive. Downloaded Spot's Palace, Wolfe Tower, Rainbows End, Mases, Jindor, The Asylum, Imagine House PRO, Betsy's New House and Madhouse II. Gave me inspiration and let me learn new tricks
10. Found more sites
11. Downloaded Glider Tech's
12. Learnt how to use ResEdit
12b. Built a couple of really good quality houses (Err, sorta.) One of them being 'The Curse'.
13. Found Slumberland site, downloaded every house and got even more knowledge of the room editor
14. Had a small break from Glider
15. Spent at least 3 months starting houses and not going on with them (Oct '98 - Jan '99)
16. Lost interest in Glider PRO
17. Bought Silverchair's new album and found interest in Glider PRO again (what the?). Created Glider Maniac
18. Created numerous houses until September 2000
19. Lost interest in Glider PRO for about 6-7 months
20. Steadily made houses until August 2001, until my monitor packed it in about 20 times before we got a professional fixer to fix it over last ummer holidays (DEC-'01)
21. Created Picture Perfect?, finally released Mello-Di, and now working on Glamourno II

John Vertical
I don't remember any more where I found Glider originally. It was the "crude" (ie. before custom picts) version of Glider PRO demo, somewhere around 1994 or 1995. Probably the source was AppleGarden, a certain local BBS. I was instantly hooked by this colorful game! After completing Demo House, I tried over and over again to get more points by battering somewhere over Kim's Roof (but I always believed that "There's Not A Secret Room Down Here", so I didn't go there).

Then, at Christmas 1995, I got Fun Bundle II , with the FULL VERSION!! Slumberland became a personal obsession for a long time; I _still_ remember exactly every room name. It is and will always be the best house I know!

Of course I also played the other houses(Rainbow's End, Davis Station, Castle o'the Air, The Asylum) through, but they weren't that impressive. But great still!

Then I found more houses on the C&G house library. Most I found exciting, but some (Betsy's House New, Mases) were boring. Soon I also started to plan a house on my own. It became extremely mazey and boring... but it didn't have the usual messiness and graphic flaws of a first try house. I went on to create Trax Industrial Inc, Maze House (still unfinished, after 2 restarts) and <house> (I couldn't think of a name).

Around 1997 I found many Glider websites - Glider PRO Players World (kewl), Slumberland (dubbelkewl), some others, and the best one, the GliderTech archive. I was in agony for not finding the majority of all the great houses mentioned anywhere, and for not to have contacted the Glider community before its apparent death. But I also found out _many_ new tricks on housebuilding, like, what the heck does a trigger do, or how are custom graphics actually used? So, I abandoned <house> and started working on John's Town. You can check out the results yourself. This process took years - the house is over 800 rooms and originally my plans included much more than what there is now - during which I became hopeless for not seeing any signs of life about Glider.

I eventually deleted Greenyard and Trax Industrials Inc. because I hated them; <house> was somewhat spared; there were some rooms I liked, and you can see them now in "Stump House". In fall 2000 I started a yet another house, called Swan Song. I thought that this was going to be the very last good Glider house.

But alas - I stumbled upon this club! (And other websites too.) What a relief it was! Swan Song was remaned Aeneoth, and I started a few other Glider projects: Evil House and Patchwork House. Because I worked on all 3 simultaneously, it took time. As you probably remember, they were finished pretty recently; before that, I had already made Full House as an interlude.

Tash T I remember that I found this game on a demo CD, and loved it. I think I was about 12 at the time. I later found the disks (disks, not CDs!) that contained the full version. Dad had gotten them somewhere. But one was missing , or one wouldn't work, and so I was still stuck playing the Demo House. I stumbled across a full version of Glider PRO when the Mac Performa I'd been using crashed and I had to reboot from a CD. What luck! My best friend's younger brother was obsessed with the game and showed me the 2 player version, and we played Slumberland together. I later decided to search for Glider PRO on yahoo, and came across many sites. And the downloads! Whoa! It was a dream come true! It wasn't until I was 16 that I started work on this site. It was meant to be an assignment for my Year 11 IT class, but I'm glad now that I dropped out of school, because I never would have been able to create a site as worthy as some of them. I'm still trying, but know that I need more houses and a better colour scheme. That's my story. If you'd like to know more about this site, click on "Site Diary".

If you'd like to see your story here, send it to happygal_1986@yahoo.com.au with the subject "Glider Story" and I'll post it as soon as I can.