Microsoft releases Windows classic Solitaire on iPhone and Android (What was old is now new)

The Telegraph ^ | Nov 24, 2016 | Cara McGoogan

[dayglored]

I'm having flashbacks, and it's not the tryptophan in the turkey...

[dayglored]

Oh, wow, man, I'm like ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[keat]

True to MS form, it’s 43MB.

[AlaskaErik]

Can I download it on my Windows 10 computer?

[dayglored]

> Can I download it on my Windows 10 computer?

The way I read this, it's only for the mobile platforms, so my guess is 'no'.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Nintendo made a mini-version of their old classic NES. All the games are preloaded and you just plug it in with your HDMI cable.

Only bad thing is, that the controllers aren't wireless and some of the good games are excluded.

[dayglored]

> True to MS form, it’s 43MB.

Somebody with artistic skilz should hack together something with about 35 floppy disks, labeled "Solitaire disk 1 of 35" and so on...

[InterceptPoint]

Advice to Freepers.

Never ever, ever, ever try heroin.
Never ever, ever, ever try Freecell.

[upchuck]

I missed the old Solitaire when I upgraded from XP to Win 7.

I found it on the XP machine, moved the two files (sol.exe and cards.dll) to the Win 7 machine and have happily been playing ever sense.

Don’t know if these two files will work with Win 10.

[TomGuy]

When I finally updates to Win7 from XP, I hated the Win7 games GUIs. I managed to get some of the old XP games — solitaire, free cell, spider solitaire and hearts — to work on 7. I doubt they would work on later versions of Windows.

That I what I hate about Windows — it makes too many programs obsolute, and many of those programs do not have later versions.

If/when Win10 ever came out with a ‘classic’ GUI, I might try it again. Until then, I am staying with Win7.

I did recently buy a Linux laptop, but Linux does not make anything easy. Even many of the tutorials for it are as bad as the product, itself — it is still in the realm of hobbyists. I found dozens of youtube videos that show how to install various versions of Linux, but few that actually show how to use some of the Linux programs.

[upchuck]

Sorry. Left out the file sizes: .dll is 352KB, .exe is 56KB.

[Ciaphas Cain]

144 megabytes for iPad Pro. My first PC had only 150 megabytes of hard drive space. Enough for MS-DOS 6, Windows 3.1 (including Solitaire and Minesweeper), AND still plenty of room left for MS Word, Flight Simulator, Doom and Doom II, and whatever I downloaded with my 14.4 baud modem.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

OS/2's solitaire was a lot better.

mah jonng too.

[Lx]

[jughandle]

Just got it and installed it! Thank you.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Thanks for the heads up! I have been using the Branium game but Windows version is so much better! Got it!

[killermosquito]

Too late. I’m addicted to freecell.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Woo Hoo!

[mrsmith]

There’s a Solitaire suite on W10 that you can find by putting solitaire in the search bar.

[Larry Lucido]

Spider solitaire is my go-to stress reliever.