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Glider PRO is an Apple Macintosh game first published by Casady & Greene in 1991. It is the final installment of the Glider series to date. more...

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Floor Lamps
Lava Lamps, Party Lights
Lighting Accessories
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Light Bulbs
Lighting Remotes, Controls
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Multiple Lamp Sets
Neon Signs
Night Lights
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Paper Lanterns
Pendant Lighting
Picture Lights
Recessed Lighting
Sconces, Wall Lamps
String Lights
Table Lamps
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Under Cabinet Lighting
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When Casady & Greene went bankrupt, the rights to the series reverted to the author, John Calhoun, who opted to give a few versions of the game away for free on his website.

The game

Game basics

In the game, you fly a paper plane around a house trying to get all the stars in a house. To play, you have to float on air currents created by vents, or fans, or slide on greased surfaces. There are also obstacles and enemies, like furniture, flying paper darts, balloons, paper shredders, and the like. There are also prizes you can get to increase your score, which are all clocks, or to help win the game, like rubber bands to shoot at balloons, aluminum foil and helium.

Houses

The game comes with one real house called Slumberland, and one demonstration house. Beyond this, a sizable number of houses are available for download on fan sites.

Versions of the game

Differences between OS X/Carbon and System 7-OS 9/Classic versions

Glider PRO was initially released for System 7 and was continuously updated through a Mac OS 9 version, the final release on the "Classic" Mac OSes. It was later ported to Mac OS X as a native Carbon application, and while this version has reworked graphics and a more muted color scheme it lacks a variety of preferences and the built-in house editor present in the Mac OS 9 version. PowerPC Mac OS X users can still run the Mac OS 9 version of Glider in the Classic environment, giving them access to the multitude of additional preferences and the house editor.

Glider PRO ("Classic") CD

This was an update that included Glider PRO, new houses, and a few utilities. Houses: Art Museum, In the Mirror, Davis Station, Castle o' the Air, Teddy World, Land of Illusion, Imaginehouse PRO II, The Asylum PRO, Nemo's Market, Titanic, SpacePods, Rainbow's End, Leviathan, Grand Prix, Metropolis, and obviously Slumberland, Empty House and Demo House.

In addition, the utilities Moving Van - A utility for moving graphics and sound between houses and libraries (and any combination of the two), and Foundation Mover - A utility for sliding an entire house over (in terms of on the map, if you ran out of room) and CD-ROM special instructions and some graphics libraries were included.

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