Click on a card or the bottom card of a pile of cards to move the card or cards. If you double click on a card it will be moved to a foundation pile if appropriate. By using the Play Out option you can move a number of cards to the foundations at once.
Winning
Don't expect to win every game every time. The games included in this collection were chosen because they are interesting to play, not because they are easy to play. (Well, there is Westcliff if you want an easy game.)
Preferences
The first time you run this program a file called Solitaire Prefs is created and placed in your system folder. This file contains the settings such as the current game name, the background color, and the scores. Each time you exit the program the current settings are saved to this file.
Compatibility
I have attempted to make this program as compatible as possible with the entire Macintosh product line. However I am not going to make any extraordinary claims. I would recommend using system 6.0 or higher. This version only runs in color on machines with 32-bit Quickdraw installed. (I should be able to release this restriction in future versions.) If you are running on a machine without color quickdraw you are welcome to reduce the memory requirement below 600K. This requirement is primarily to make sure that 8-bit color users have enough memory for the offscreen buffers. (If you do change this please don't distribute the program without changing it back.) This is an initial release and as such it probably contains bugs. If you think you have found a bug please get in touch with me. Until I release a new version please consider all bugs undocumented features.
Background
This game was written using Symantec's Think C 4.0. I tried to take full advantage of the OOPs extensions to C which Think C provides. As such, the user interface was built using the Think Class Library with my own extensions to handle double buffered animation and styled textedit. Symantec should be commended for a great product. I hope that Symantec continues to improve on the compiler and the class library. (Maybe someday we'll see C++ support.)
The Future
This is the first, and hopefully not the last version of this program. If you like it, at least send me a note saying so, even if you can't bring yourself to pay the sinfully small shareware fee. I plan to add a number of new solitaire games to future versions so send in those cards and letters if you want your favorite on the list.
