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tf243
Too bad you can't play it right in the browser.
jadavis
https://basicallydan.github.io/skifree.js/
sajt
It doesn't seem to have the Abominable Snow Monster (TM)
chrissnell
It's amusing that the original (native) version ran smoothly on a 286 with EGA but this JS version gets the CPU running hard enough to turn on the fans on my 2014 MBP.
nhayden
I would guess it's running at like a thousand FPS, could be wrong though.
duskwuff
That looks like it's a recreation, though. Shouldn't it be possible to create an Emscripten port of the original? :)
BaryonBundle
Many of the normal rules aren't implemented (flips in the air, jumping off of rocks if you click at the right time, etc.).
mey
I remember there was a bug/trick/cheat by going up hill underneath a ski-lift you would basically get infinite points.
mutagen
Does anyone remember a SKI.BAS character mode ski game for the Apple II? It simply scrolled a series of characters representing the slalom course and the player and occasionally had a jump, much like the VAX version they describe. In 7th grade I could type it in from memory and I figured out how to add it to the menu of whatever educational software menu program came up on the computers at school, it quickly became the most popular thing on there.

Now I'm going to spend the evening on a nostalgia trip trying to find it because I certainly don't remember the code. I could re-implement it but there was a nice hack, maybe even buggy behavior, that made the jump and I don't remember the trick.