About Kosmonaut
Kosmonaut is the 1990 original of SkyRoads. Its title screen reads SkyRoads, copyright 1990 TIW Systems, programmed by Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu, who went on to found Bluemoon Interactive. You fly a hover ship down floating roads, jumping gaps and watching your fuel.
Bluemoon offers it on its own website to see and try the game in whole. This page runs the original DOS file unmodified using js-dos, which runs DOSBox in your browser. Bluemoon published no distribution terms for it, so it is hosted under this site's removal policy and taken down on request.
Controls
- ↑ ↓: speed up / slow down (or change road in the list)
- ← →: steer
- Space: jump / play the chosen road
- Esc: quit to the menu
Keyboard and mouse work best. On-screen buttons appear for the keys the game needs on a touch screen.
Questions
Is Kosmonaut really free?
It is free to play here, with no account and no payment.
Is it the same as SkyRoads?
It is the 1990 original: its title screen says SkyRoads. The finished 1993 game is also on this site.
What are the Kosmonaut controls?
Up and down change speed, left and right steer and Space jumps. In the road list, up and down pick a road and Space plays it.
Does Kosmonaut save my progress?
The game keeps its own records. The Save button stores them in this browser on this device.
Credits and licence
Original game: Kosmonaut, 1990, by Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu (TIW Systems, later Bluemoon Interactive). Published by Bluemoon Interactive.
Edition hosted: Bluemoon Interactive's own download, kosmo.zip.
Licence: Retro Hideout hosting notice (no licence text ships with the game). Bluemoon Interactive offers this download on its own site and states no terms. Hosted here unmodified and free, under Retro Hideout's availability-and-owner-removal policy, and removed on Bluemoon's request.
The game files are unmodified copies of the original release, hosted under this site's removal policy: the rightsholder keeps all rights and can ask for the game to be removed. Run by js-dos (DOSBox in WebAssembly).
(c) 1990 TIW Systems, Inc. (title screen); offered by Bluemoon Interactive. Attribution and rights information ↗ · Ask for a change or removal ↗
