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Oh my god what have you done posting this...There's still work to get done this week.
"Oh my god" is exactly what I whispered to myself when the game started.

"Oh my god." My childhood.

Skyroads was the best game from my childhood.
I was just reading more about the Estonian developers of it there, BlueMoon Interactive. They also created the FastTrack P2P protocol and wrote Skype. Pretty impressive group there.
It's relatively unplayable on IceWeasel 38.6.1 (Debian). The graphics are flashing on and off.
Same on Firefox 44.0.2 on Win7
same version of FF on win8.1 has no issues
Same FF version on win8.1: My car goes full throttle + full turn to the right. Have not yet managed to jump straight (and I can only play Druidia, Road 3).

It works on Chrome on the same computer.

Update: Well, it worked once on Chrome. The next time around the car constantly jumps. Easier to control than full throttle, but not by much.

Same on my Windows 7, Firefox and Chrome. Strange that it seems to happen on all kinds of setups.
Firefox 46.0a2 (2016-03-02) on Arch Linux, Intel Graphics. Runs very well.
Reminds me of the HP48 game Babal.
Ahh. In the original game I can finish all levels except for Druidia 2 and 3.
I think this would make for a great mobile game - not sure if the devs have considered supporting mobile platforms for it, but I can't seem to find anything approaching a good clone on the play store.
This is a clone of an old game SkyRoads.

(sure I guess new artwork could be done and levels changed and re release ti)

I feel these days Distance is a good spiritual successor to Skyroads. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDVxz732rk for trailer) Not on mobile, but maybe one day.
I wonder if it would be possible to get the levels from BlueMoon's first game "Kosmonaut" to run in OpenRoads.
There goes the rest of my day.
That perspective is quite hard on my eyes for some reason.
While in university a friend and I dumped the original sky roads levels by dumping the dosbox heap while the game was loaded and reverse engineering the memory map. If i remember correctly we emailed the original devs (who are awesome) and they gave permission for rerelease for the open source remake available at the time.
Awesome, thanks for game, but I see too much blinking on my Ubuntu 15.04 desktop (firefox 37)
This just brought back so many memories! Thank you! :-)
A bit of gaming history: this is apparently a clone of a game called SkyRoads which Wikipedia claims to be a clone of "Kosmonauts", but that is obviously a clone of a hypnotic space-themed game Trailblazer from the 80's. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXsxd8O7eU for C64. Thus, the question arises: does anyone know if Trailblazer itself is a clone of some other game?