Twitter Avatars : un album. The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page. Microsoft SkiFree 1.0 History In 1991 I was working at Microsoft as a programmer, writing programming utilities for use by other programmers, such as a dialog editor used in the development of Word and Excel. I programmed mostly in C for OS/2 (back then that was a Microsoft product, and supposedly the wave of the future). Deciding it was time to learn Windows programming (Windows 3.0 had just come out) I jumped right in and did a graphical version of my old VAX/VMS skiing game for VT100 terminals.
The VAX version had looked something like this: Ski for VAX/VMS The "^" signs are trees, and "//" is the skier turning slightly right. VAX Ski was itself inspired by an Activision game for the Atari 2600 console, which I enjoyed playing in my youth. I wrote SkiFree in C on my home computer, entirely for my own education and entertainment. SkiFree was intended to run on a 386 PC with VGA display.
In October 2005 I fixed a few bugs and released version 1.04. Sights and Sounds SkiFree on the Web. Io9. We come from the future. The Official Star Wars Blog.