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Solitaire games wanted

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Gang,

I'd like to play Solitaire on as many of my systems as possible. If anybody would be willing to make a copy of a version that will run on any of the: 8088, 80286, Commodore 64 or 68000 Macintosh, I would supply the disks, pay shipping both ways, and offer compensation for your trouble.

Thanks,
Sean

P.S.: Overseas shipping O.K.
 
Ole Juul said:
Do you know if these exist? I thought that the one written by Wes Cherry in 1989, and distributed with Windows 3.0, was the first.
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No, there was at least one for the Mac before Win 3.0 came about. I vaguely remember seeing a few others before Win 3 rolled out. After Win 3, pretty much any shareware collection (DOS, Mac, Win, etc.) had bunches of different Solitaire card games. http://www.solitairecentral.com/history.html lists a couple of early titles.
 
krebizfan said:
No, there was at least one for the Mac before Win 3.0 came about. I vaguely remember seeing a few others before Win 3 rolled out. After Win 3, pretty much any shareware collection (DOS, Mac, Win, etc.) had bunches of different Solitaire card games. http://www.solitairecentral.com/history.html lists a couple of early titles.
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Thanks for the clarification and link. I guess I caught some MS FUD or something, because the story about Wes Cherry always gets dragged out. So, there was something at least two years earlier:

The first commercial solitaire collection was "Solitaire Royale", written by Brad Fregger, published by Spectrum Holobyte in 1987, and available for both PC (MS-DOS) and Macintosh. It contained 8 different solitaire games, and featured 16-color EGA graphics and mouse support.
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Geoworks Ensemble 1.2 ( fine for XT or 286 class machines) had Solitaire bundled as well. I'tll run fine in quite a number of earlier video modes.
 

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I think there is one or two C64 versions on the "50 Great Games" collection by Wicked Software.

Regarding the first commercial game, could that refer to the IBM PC format only? I'd expect a couple such Solitaire card games had been published for prior systems much earlier than 1987, or perhaps on other formats that relatively simple kind of game was distributed as public domain or part of huge game collections, i.e. nobody imagined there would be money in selling just a card game.
 
Here's the results from mobygames of a search for solitaire titles. Might help for what to keep an eye out for with the different platforms.

Also on the not solitaire but if you like card games, I'm not finding a reference quickly but there was a dos game called "UFO" which was actually an UNO game with up to 4 (npc optional) characters). I have to admit this was probably on a 386 though so it may be newer than I recall but it was fun.
 
carlsson said:
I think there is one or two C64 versions on the "50 Great Games" collection by Wicked Software.

Regarding the first commercial game, could that refer to the IBM PC format only? I'd expect a couple such Solitaire card games had been published for prior systems much earlier than 1987, or perhaps on other formats that relatively simple kind of game was distributed as public domain or part of huge game collections, i.e. nobody imagined there would be money in selling just a card game.
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I remember playing Solitaire on a 68000 machine before. It was in black and white which was O.K., but I noticed that it seemed like I never won the game. I suspect that the version bundled with Windows lets you win more often because the game was included as a way to develop skill at mousing.

I put in some saved searches on ebay and one for "50 Great Games".

Thanks,
Sean
 
Here are 165 mostly different Solitaire games for the C64. Some of them are more or less public domain. Several are dated 1984 or before, so clearly before Microsoft Windows. I'd expect e.g. Apple II games even older than 1983/84, or why not a Solitaire game for the Commodore PET?
http://gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=5&id=186&d=18&h=0

It seems the two versions of the 50 games collection were COMPUTE!'s Gazette version "Klondike" and one more that I can't identify right now. Most probably what Wicked Software did was to grab partly public domain games, combine with a few own titles, pack everything on a floppy then sell like no one knew better.
 
Gang,

I should have mentioned that I don't have a way to transfer a zipped emailed file to floppy disk. Sorry about that. But thanks to everyone who replied. I did go ahead and pay a ridiculous price for Windows 3.0 for my 286s, in case I can get the hard drives working. I don't know where my version of Klondike for the 68000 went, and none of my XTs have a hard drive. So, I'm still looking, with challenges ;)

Sean
 
Just my 2 cents, I can run Solitaire in Windows 3.0 on my 5160 mo problem, and that has an 8088 CPU.
 
I personally prefer the run GeoWorks. Just to be a bit different you know. It's boring running the same graphical interface on different classes of PEECEE.
 
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Floppies_only said:
I should have mentioned that I don't have a way to transfer a zipped emailed file to floppy disk. Sorry about that.
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Hmm, that doesn't sound right to me. You do have a machine with a floppy right? And you have a modern machine that you log on here with, right? So, you transfer from the modern machine to the one with the floppy which can be done in more ways than I can list in one post. What am I missing? :)

I'll list one way that is often forgotten. You first copy the file from your e-mail machine to some place on the net, then you get it using htget, ftp, or whatever you have, directly to the floppy machine. That can be done with a single floppy system. Either an internal or external modem with work if you can find a dialup connection, or you will need a network card of some kind. Of course you can get to the net with a serial port if you go through another machine, but if you could do that then you could probably do the whole thing with serial. Also if the e-mail machine has either a serial or parallel port, then that's all you'd need.
 
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