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MS Solitaire Collection
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:49:26 +0100, "wasbit"
wrote: "Bill" wrote in message ... I (just) started playing one of the solitaire games the other day. Lots of advertising pushing online gambling. Having explicitly chosen a non-gambling lifestyle, I removed the app today. What's an operating system seller colluding with the likes of online gambling for...geeze? Yes, I know I could have paid to have the ads removed, but it still seems wrong. End of rant. IMO, Shame on MS; they lost a few "morality points" here, as far as I'm concerned, and to my mind, this calls into question the morality or ethics built into their other software. They don't give a damn about their users? ("harmless fun"-ha!) In addition to the Windows games i also have XM Solitaire, a suite of over 200 games. You can find XM solitaire here, at Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmsol/ it does run on Win-10, in spite of the slightly misleading wording in the previous sentence. MajorGeeks also has a download for it if for some reason Sourceforge bugs you: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/det...solitaire.html . That site suggests that it runs under WinXP to Win-ten. And here is the website for some alternatives to it: https://alternativeto.net/software/xm-solitaire/ Open source & the author has answered questions. The Author being reachable at his home page (English version) at: http://petr.lastovicka.sweb.cz/indexEN.html where other nice stuff can also be found. There is more nice stuff on his Chzek language page. J. |
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"John" wrote in message
... On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:49:26 +0100, "wasbit" wrote: "Bill" wrote in message ... I (just) started playing one of the solitaire games the other day. Lots of advertising pushing online gambling. Having explicitly chosen a non-gambling lifestyle, I removed the app today. What's an operating system seller colluding with the likes of online gambling for...geeze? Yes, I know I could have paid to have the ads removed, but it still seems wrong. End of rant. IMO, Shame on MS; they lost a few "morality points" here, as far as I'm concerned, and to my mind, this calls into question the morality or ethics built into their other software. They don't give a damn about their users? ("harmless fun"-ha!) In addition to the Windows games i also have XM Solitaire, a suite of over 200 games. You can find XM solitaire here, at Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmsol/ it does run on Win-10, in spite of the slightly misleading wording in the previous sentence. MajorGeeks also has a download for it if for some reason Sourceforge bugs you: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/det...solitaire.html . That site suggests that it runs under WinXP to Win-ten. And here is the website for some alternatives to it: https://alternativeto.net/software/xm-solitaire/ Open source & the author has answered questions. The Author being reachable at his home page (English version) at: http://petr.lastovicka.sweb.cz/indexEN.html where other nice stuff can also be found. There is more nice stuff on his Chzek language page. Sorry, I forgot the link. Nice write up & amendment. Thanks. -- Regards wasbit |
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:56:03 +0100, "wasbit"
wrote: "John" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:49:26 +0100, "wasbit" wrote: "Bill" wrote in message ... I (just) started playing one of the solitaire games the other day. Lots of advertising pushing online gambling. Having explicitly chosen a non-gambling lifestyle, I removed the app today. What's an operating system seller colluding with the likes of online gambling for...geeze? Yes, I know I could have paid to have the ads removed, but it still seems wrong. End of rant. IMO, Shame on MS; they lost a few "morality points" here, as far as I'm concerned, and to my mind, this calls into question the morality or ethics built into their other software. They don't give a damn about their users? ("harmless fun"-ha!) In addition to the Windows games i also have XM Solitaire, a suite of over 200 games. You can find XM solitaire here, at Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmsol/ it does run on Win-10, in spite of the slightly misleading wording in the previous sentence. MajorGeeks also has a download for it if for some reason Sourceforge bugs you: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/det...solitaire.html . That site suggests that it runs under WinXP to Win-ten. And here is the website for some alternatives to it: https://alternativeto.net/software/xm-solitaire/ Open source & the author has answered questions. The Author being reachable at his home page (English version) at: http://petr.lastovicka.sweb.cz/indexEN.html where other nice stuff can also be found. There is more nice stuff on his Chzek language page. Sorry, I forgot the link. It happens. Actualy *lots* of things happen, some of them good. Nice write up & amendment. Thanks. It's cool. Someone was going to add the little linkies, this time it was me but it could have just as easily been you. [shrug]. If the Multiverse Theory were correct [which it ain't] in some other places it *was* you. Lots of times. We all have a role, mine is so minuscule even the flapping of a butterfly's antenna swamps it. Thanks for mentioning XM-Sol. I've downloaded a copy for the wife. J. |
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In addition to the Windows games i also have XM Solitaire, a suite of over 200 games. Open source & the author has answered questions. The XM Klondike solitaire works well but it's lacking in 2 features that I'd miss from the old Windows XP solitai It doesn't tell you when you've lost, and it doesn't offer a celebratory cascading of cards when you win. |
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n/a wrote:
"Bill"* wrote in message ... I (just) started playing one of the solitaire games the other day. Lots of advertising pushing online gambling.* Having explicitly chosen a non-gambling lifestyle, I removed the app today.* What's an operating system seller colluding with the likes of online gambling for...geeze?** Yes, I know I could have paid to have the ads removed, but it still seems wrong. End of rant.** IMO, Shame on MS; they lost a few "morality points" here, as far as I'm concerned, and to my mind, this calls into question the morality or ethics built into their other software. They don't give a damn about their users? ("harmless fun"-ha!) This works and I have it installed on several Win10 systems. https://winaero.com/blog/get-windows...or-windows-10/ Thanks very much for that link. The download, by the way, is a little over 150mb. In case anybody is concerned about whether or not it's safe, here's the Virustotal scan link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/...be9f/detection -- John C. |
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John C. wrote:
n/a wrote: "Bill" wrote in message ... I (just) started playing one of the solitaire games the other day. Lots of advertising pushing online gambling. Having explicitly chosen a non-gambling lifestyle, I removed the app today. What's an operating system seller colluding with the likes of online gambling for...geeze? Yes, I know I could have paid to have the ads removed, but it still seems wrong. End of rant. IMO, Shame on MS; they lost a few "morality points" here, as far as I'm concerned, and to my mind, this calls into question the morality or ethics built into their other software. They don't give a damn about their users? ("harmless fun"-ha!) This works and I have it installed on several Win10 systems. https://winaero.com/blog/get-windows...or-windows-10/ Thanks very much for that link. The download, by the way, is a little over 150mb. In case anybody is concerned about whether or not it's safe, here's the Virustotal scan link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/...be9f/detection The executable should only differ by a few bytes, from the original file on a Windows 7 machine. There was a procedure, for editing some sort of metadata inside the executable, which "gives permission" for it to run on a different version of OS. But the people doing the editing, did not explain what they were editing. Making a 150MB "project" out of it like this, was intended to make it easier for people to use. There is always a danger though, of "hiding" something in it, so it's always a good idea to be scanning it. You never know what the web site security is like, on the average site like this, and that's why you'd still scan it, even if others had already scanned it. If the executable had been "signed" on the original OS, then doing edits like this would not have worked, because the loader would complain about the busted signing as soon as any critical part of the executable is changed. It's really kind of surprising, that this works. Paul |
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Bill wrote:
I (just) started playing one of the solitaire games the other day. Lots of advertising pushing online gambling.* Having explicitly chosen a non-gambling lifestyle, I removed the app today.* What's an operating system seller colluding with the likes of online gambling for...geeze?** Yes, I know I could have paid to have the ads removed, but it still seems wrong. End of rant.** IMO, Shame on MS; they lost a few "morality points" here, as far as I'm concerned, and to my mind, this calls into question the morality or ethics built into their other software. They don't give a damn about their users? ("harmless fun"-ha!) Go he http://www.acid-play.com/ or he https://www.myabandonware.com/ for lots of free games. Some of them might be 16 bit, but most should be 32. There might even be some 64. -- John C. |
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John C. wrote:
Go he http://www.acid-play.com/ or he https://www.myabandonware.com/ for lots of free games. Some of them might be 16 bit, but most should be 32. There might even be some 64. Thanks (I am investigating them)! - Bill |
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