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SkiFree has been recompiled using VS2019 for modern Windows

87 points by benguild 3y ago

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password4321 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34410870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34410870 (3 months ago) -- SkiFree in the Browser (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965
- dang 3y ago
  Thanks! Macroexpanded: Reverse engineering Skifree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718756 - June 2022 (103 comments) The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112518 - Aug 2017 (41 comments) The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682162 - Dec 2014 (11 comments) SkiFree in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965 - Feb 2013 (61 comments)
speps 3y ago
(2019) please: https://web.archive.org/web/20191010064755/http://ski.ihoc.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191010064755/http://ski.ihoc.n...
javchz 3y ago
That pixel monster caused me more nightmares that all Stephen King library. Jokes aside I'm glad this old games are being recompiled to new systems.
unsignedint 3y ago
Microsoft Edge features a spiritual successor to this game, called Surf. I believe they did SkiFree-like mod over the winter, too :-) edge://surf/
- renewiltord 3y ago
  Neat that MS still permits easter-egg type stuff like this. I recall the Excel flight sim quite fondly!
  - DANmode 3y ago
    They couldn't let the running dinosaur in their upstream Chromium go unanswered, they'd surely get flamed.
  - skissane 3y ago
    I think easter-eggs are still okay if you get PM to put them in the product requirements document. At least then, if someone is going to get in trouble over it, it is going to be PM for putting it in the PRD, not the developer who implements it. :)
dragontamer 3y ago
Don't forget that the F button can make you outrun the snow-monster. A little known fact that there was a speed up button in SkiFree.
CaesarA 3y ago
This is really neat, but also kind of redundant due to the fact that Microsoft Edge already includes a surfing game extremely similar to SkiFree, although it replaces the Abominable Snowman with a Kraken. I still think this is pretty cool though for those who want the original experience running on newer, none 16-bit, hardware.

87 points by benguild 3y ago

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34410870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34410870 (3 months ago) -- SkiFree in the Browser (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965

dang 3y ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Reverse engineering Skifree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718756 - June 2022 (103 comments) The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112518 - Aug 2017 (41 comments) The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682162 - Dec 2014 (11 comments) SkiFree in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247965 - Feb 2013 (61 comments)

speps 3y ago

(2019) please: https://web.archive.org/web/20191010064755/http://ski.ihoc.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191010064755/http://ski.ihoc.n...

javchz 3y ago

That pixel monster caused me more nightmares that all Stephen King library. Jokes aside I'm glad this old games are being recompiled to new systems.

unsignedint 3y ago

Microsoft Edge features a spiritual successor to this game, called Surf. I believe they did SkiFree-like mod over the winter, too :-) edge://surf/

renewiltord 3y ago
Neat that MS still permits easter-egg type stuff like this. I recall the Excel flight sim quite fondly!
- DANmode 3y ago
  They couldn't let the running dinosaur in their upstream Chromium go unanswered, they'd surely get flamed.
- skissane 3y ago
  I think easter-eggs are still okay if you get PM to put them in the product requirements document. At least then, if someone is going to get in trouble over it, it is going to be PM for putting it in the PRD, not the developer who implements it. :)

dragontamer 3y ago

Don't forget that the F button can make you outrun the snow-monster. A little known fact that there was a speed up button in SkiFree.

CaesarA 3y ago

This is really neat, but also kind of redundant due to the fact that Microsoft Edge already includes a surfing game extremely similar to SkiFree, although it replaces the Abominable Snowman with a Kraken. I still think this is pretty cool though for those who want the original experience running on newer, none 16-bit, hardware.