![]() ![]() A few years later Microsoft XP finally introduced Spider Solitaire, which again inspired a number of enhancers and imitators. In 1995 to great anticipation, Microsoft released Windows 95 this version featured a solitaire game called “Freecell”, which did not take long to become very popular, spanning a wide number of enhanced shareware versions of the game. ![]() This was actually an implementation of the traditional “Klondike” solitaire game, though the name it was given “Windows Solitaire” has been a topic of confusion ever since. Solitaire on Microsoft Windows first appeared in 1990 in the version Windows 3.0. If we stop to look at the shareware front, the most extensive shareware Microsoft- DOS solitaire collection of the time was” Solitaire Suite” by Randy Rasa, which was released in 1991, this collection was compiled of 7 solitaire games, with mouse support and EGA as before. As well as this, they could compete in “quests” to find “treasure” by completing a set of solitaire games successfully. In this collection, players could build their own custom “journeys” by selecting a sub-set of the games. We then had to wait 5 years for our second notable collection, in 1992, Quantum Quality Productions published a commercial collection that was named “Solitaire’s Journey”, this was also for Microsoft-DOS, featuring a very impressive array of 105 different games and detailed user statistics on each game played. At the time, the collection contained 8 different solitaire games, and featured 16-color EGA graphics- impressive at the time, plus mouse support rather than simple text input. This collection was published by Spectrum Holobyte in 1987, and it was available for both PC (Microsoft) and Macintosh. Of these solitaire collections, the first commercial collection was “Solitaire Royale”, written by Brad Fregger. ![]() When the state of computer software and technology advanced, the graphics started to make the games look a whole lot better, this combined with a larger memory capacity allowed computer programmers to begin to fit more than one solitaire game into a single program, this resulted in the ‘solitaire collection’. In the early days of Microsoft, nearly all solitaire games were text-mode, and were single-game programs. Because the technological requirements for showing playing cards on a computer screen are relatively easy, solitaire games came to the forefront. When the first personal computer (PC) appeared in our shops, solitaire was an obvious fit. ![]()
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