Solitaire and similar window 7 games

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Will Windows 7 games run under windows 10 or will they be finally
killed of and we will be forced to use the ad filled replacements?
Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Mahjong Titans, etc
For the last while I have had to reinstall them periodically when
ever MS upgraded windows.

Hi Knuttle,
Not what you asked, but when does that stop me!!!
I tell my customers to go to the M$ Store and pick
out any free one that you want. And don't give
them your credit card !!!!!
-T

If we're doing "not what you asked": I have something called sol.exe on
this W7 machine, that I've obviously transferred from an earlier one,
and it works fine - I occasionally play it rather than the W7 one. It's
quite nostalgic:
o no sound effects
o no hints
o squarer cards (still rounded, but from lower resolutions)
o you have to turn over the cards yourself (gee, what a hardship! I
actually find that useful)
o the "card waterfall" when it works out is manic on a W7 system!

It's 171,392 bytes, and my copy is dated 199-4-23 23:22 (though may be
older). It's version 4.10.0.1998, so probably came from Windows 98.

[Donald G. Davis]

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
If we're doing "not what you asked": I have something called sol.exe on
this W7 machine, that I've obviously transferred from an earlier one,
and it works fine - I occasionally play it rather than the W7 one. It's
o no sound effects
o no hints
o squarer cards (still rounded, but from lower resolutions)
o you have to turn over the cards yourself (gee, what a hardship! I
actually find that useful)
o the "card waterfall" when it works out is manic on a W7 system!
It's 171,392 bytes, and my copy is dated 199-4-23 23:22 (though may be
older). It's version 4.10.0.1998, so probably came from Windows 98.
--

Yes, that's the Win98 version of SOL.EXE. Mine is dated 5-11-98. I
haven't tried it in higher versions of Windows. The "waterfall" is manic
enough in 98! I think it was carried over from Windows 3.1.

--Donald Davis

[T]

On 8/7/21 7:36 PM, T wrote:>>
Not what you asked, but when does that stop me!!!

On 8/8/21 6:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrot> If we're doing "not what
you asked":

I always write that in when I am going off on a
tangent as personally find it really annoying
when I ask a question and someone thinks they
know better than I do why I want the information
and then get really pissed at me when they find
out I did not use the tangent they went off on.
Not this group that I can remember, but comp.os.linux.misc
is really bad at it.

"YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THE REASON WHY YOU ASKED!!!
You left out a lot of information. YOU KEPT US
IN THE DARK." [name calling ensues]

"You did to answer the question I asked."

I usually use the Fedora mailing list because as
this stupidity does not happen over there.

Some times I deliberately do not give the big picture,
just because I do not want the nice guys on a group
to do my research for me when I usually already know
what they will find and I am only after a single
puzzle piece. I will usually do a follow up after
figuring things out completely, then I will tell
them the big picture.

[R.Wieser]

T,

Post by T
Some times I deliberately do not give the big picture,

Nowerdays I seldom do, because I've had /way/ to many people go off
"answering" stuff I never asked and already have hammered down.

Its both tiring to deal with those people as well as a problem because it
threathens to either drown out actual replies or causes people which could
have something usefull to say to turn away.

That ofcourse does not mean I'm not thankfull for related /suggestions/.

An old thread by the way. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

[Michael Trew]

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
If we're doing "not what you asked": I have something called sol.exe on
this W7 machine, that I've obviously transferred from an earlier one,
and it works fine - I occasionally play it rather than the W7 one. It's
o no sound effects
o no hints
o squarer cards (still rounded, but from lower resolutions)
o you have to turn over the cards yourself (gee, what a hardship! I
actually find that useful)
o the "card waterfall" when it works out is manic on a W7 system!
It's 171,392 bytes, and my copy is dated 199-4-23 23:22 (though may be
older). It's version 4.10.0.1998, so probably came from Windows 98.

I haven't played Windows Solitaire since 9x days. Why did they get rid
of the waterfall thing? I'm am (or at least was) used to clicking on
the card to turn it over.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 at 22:39:55, Michael Trew <***@ymail.com> wrote
(my responses usually follow points raised):
[]

Post by Michael Trew
I haven't played Windows Solitaire since 9x days. Why did they get rid

I once heard a (Microsoft?) person saying that the real purpose of at
least Solitaire (which in UK used to be better known as "patience" - the
card game anyway; solitaire was a marble-jumping game) and Minesweeper
was to be mouse-use training aids, but if they'd called them that,
nobody would have used them, so they called them games (or rather Games
- They Like To Capitalise Everything).

Post by Michael Trew
of the waterfall thing? I'm am (or at least was) used to clicking on
the card to turn it over.

Oh, has it gone in 10? It's still there in the 7 Solitaire; I didn't
mean it had gone, just that the one in the '98 version goes very fast on
a modern machine. (The one in the 7 version is slower.)

[Michael Trew]

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
[]

I haven't played Windows Solitaire since 9x days. Why did they get rid

I once heard a (Microsoft?) person saying that the real purpose of at
least Solitaire (which in UK used to be better known as "patience" - the
card game anyway; solitaire was a marble-jumping game) and Minesweeper
was to be mouse-use training aids, but if they'd called them that,
nobody would have used them, so they called them games (or rather Games
- They Like To Capitalise Everything).

of the waterfall thing? I'm am (or at least was) used to clicking on
the card to turn it over.

Oh, has it gone in 10? It's still there in the 7 Solitaire; I didn't
mean it had gone, just that the one in the '98 version goes very fast on
a modern machine. (The one in the 7 version is slower.)

Oh, I didn't realize what you were saying. I have no clue on 10; I've
never used newer than Windows 7.