Talk:Solitaire (Windows)

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[edit] That "Win" Animation

DragoonWraith 05:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC): You know that animation that plays when you win, with the cards flying all over? Is it possible to completely fill the screen with the trails of the bouncing cards? I always have the upper left corner still showing green, by where the deck was. I play a lot of this stupid solitaire game, and I always let it run to see if it will fill that corner, and it never does, even though I play with the window at its smallest size. I know this is really random, but it was bugging me, so I thought I'd ask...

DragoonWraith 06:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC): In case anyone cares, I just had the bouncing animation fill the entire window. Yays, now my life is complete...


O! I KNOW I ALWAYS WAIT FOR IT TO SEE IF IT WILL! im really happy for you C: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.23.101.147 (talk) 21:16, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Game name

MobyGames lists this game as being "Microsoft Solitaire". Should we move the article to reflect this? SharkD 20:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

If you go into Help > About Solitaire, it'll show the name as "Microsoft (R) Solitaire." If you ask me, I think "Microsoft Solitaire" is more appropriate and sounds better than "Solitaire (Windows)." - 69.224.41.98 (talk) 22:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Right click functionality

Does anyone know when the functionality for right clicking to move cards up to the top right was implemented? I'm pretty sure it wasn't in the original Solitaire, and most people that I have talked to don't know about it.

Thanks, Bringer 01:49, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I didn't even know about right-click, but I think it's been possible to double-click to move cards up since the very first version --64.15.147.4 (talk) 01:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

It was not used in win98, but was in win xp. Dunno about ME and 2k. The XP version also limited the speed of the winning card shower animation, in 98 it was cpu power bound - a faster machine literally blew out all cards in 1 sec. I believe there have been 3 major revisions of solitaire so far;
- the one in win3.1 (not sure if it was in earlier windows as well) which was used in win95, 98 and 98se,
- the enchanced version in winxp (may have been used in 2k or ME) which uses right click, limits the win animation speed and has different choosable card backs (photorealistic XP themed ones instead of the 16-color images from win3.1),
- and most recently the completely revamped vista edition.

However, someone should definetaly write up all the sol.exe version numbers from all windows editions.

The right-click functionality and speed-throttled "win" animation seems to have debuted in Windows 2000, but ME (based on 98) didn't get this new version. So, it must be an NT development. The versions of the Solitaire program itself are based on the base build versions of their respective Windows OS for the most part, no matter which sub-version you have (e.g. Windows 95C). I'll write out the ones I have available to me here for convenience.
    • Windows for Workgroups 3.11: 3.10
    • Windows 95 (B/OSR2): 4.00.950
    • Windows NT 4 (Server): 4.00
    • Windows 98: 4.10.1998
    • Windows Me: 4.90.3000
    • Windows 2000 (Pro and Server): 5.00.2138.1
      • Right-click functionality
      • "Natural-speed" win animation
    • Windows XP (Home and Pro): 5.1.2600.0
      • New, high-color decks (back only)
    • Windows 2003: Missing. Probably to keep network administrators from wasting too much time while logged on.
    • Windows Vista (Ultimate): 6.0.6000.16386
      • Various GUI improvements.
      • Different win animation.
      • Score-keeping.
Have fun. - 69.224.41.98 (talk) 00:41, 19 December 2007 (UTC)