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I worked with John Calhoun (the author) for a few years some time ago. Great guy. Glider was one of my favorite games as a kid, so I was a bit starstruck the fi

I worked with John Calhoun (the author) for a few years some time ago. Great guy. Glider was one of my favorite games as a kid, so I was a bit starstruck the first time I met him. He actually had the source code to Glider Pro printed and bound into a hardcover book. That way, he said, even if all of his electronic media became unreadable, the code would still live on.

peterburkimsher 11y ago
Cool! Any chance you could ask him to open-source SoundJam MP as well? That was my favourite C&G program, for copying music onto my old Rio 600.
- setpatchaddress 11y ago
  C&G was primarily a publisher. SoundJam MP was written by other developers who later sold it to Apple. It became iTunes.
  - js2 11y ago
    Interesting story about that - https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
- pmarreck 11y ago
  SoundJam will never be open-sourced as its code was bought by Apple and became the foundation for iTunes, which was obvious to any developer around that time who used SoundJam and then iTunes.