In the meantime a fan, Michael Holt, has also made a fan port to the TI-92.įollowing the successful completion of a course, the player is granted a sandbox stretch of free, goal-less skiing. Since then the original source has been rediscovered in 2005, and the author has taken the opportunity to compile a new version of the program native for 32-bit operating environments. The marketing department disliked the WinSki name, and decided to change it to SkiFree for release.Ī second, enhanced version went into development in 1993 (with plans for "slightly more realistic physics, multi-player, network play, robot opponents, and sounds"), but was shelved after the original source code was lost. The program manager would not rest until it was included in the entertainment pack. A happy accident occured when the program manager for the Windows Entertainment Pack caught a glimpse of a Windows version, titled WinSki, over the shoulder of Chris during a moment of goofing-off. The famous graphical version of Ski Free was written in C at home in spare time while Chris was employed by Microsoft, working on OS/2 products. Chris Pirih had developed the game in Fortran using VT100 escape sequences and text scolling for the VAX/VMS machines at his school, the University of Puget Sound. TriviaFirst inspired by Activision's 1980 Skiing game for the Atari 2600, long before Windows, came along an early textmode version of Ski Free. There are various obstacles, such as trees, snowboarders, rocks and more. After the finish, the skier can move on until he is caught by the abominable snow monster. It is also possible to jump, but the biggest ones are achieved with the help of rocks, bumps and rainbow-coloured pads. The skier can be steered using the keyboard or the mouse. The final one is Freestyle were points are scored by performing jumps and doing tricks in the air, followed by a safe landing. Tree Slalom is identical, but has a lot of trees on the course.
In Slalom, the skier needs to pass flags on the right side and makes his way down to the finish.
From the start, three types of courses can be selected, but these can also be ignored. Players control a skier on a downhill slope on a mountain. It was then re-compiled for 32-bit Windows systems when the author found back the source code and released it for free through his website.
Not an American user? Description SkiFree is the standalone version of the game originally included as a part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 (1991) for Windows 3.x, and later made available separately for Windows 3.x.
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