Installed Emudeck today, for completely normal reasons.
not actually a toaster
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Unemployed 30-something slinger of too many words. Would happily invite people into my own little worlds if only anybody asked. I own an unwise amount of golf simulators (approaching four shelves now!) and otherwise tinker with retro computers and assorted video game nonsense.
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wildweasel486.github.io/On this day (May 22nd) in 1990, Windows 3 was released, and with it, Solitaire by Wes Cherry, featuring illustrations by Susan Kare. While the idea of "Windows" Solitaire has since fallen from grace, into video-ad-supported, monthly-subscription-based nonsense, the original Solitaire will still work quite handily on a modern computer, either by way of the 32-bit Windows XP version, or by way of OTVDM that enables 16-bit Windows programs to run on 64-bit Windows. With some effort it can even run in Wine on Linux or (some versions of) macOS.
Solitaire's impact on the history of computing cannot be overstated. Although its intuitive click-and-drag interface had already existed for several years on the Macintosh (by way of the Apple Lisa), Wes Cherry's implementation had effectively snuck into hundreds of millions of workstation computers throughout the 1990s, not only wasting countless billions of hours of workplace productivity (to which I say, hell yeah, more power to you), but indirectly training users to get good at using the mouse.
And these days, you are absolutely spoiled for choice, as far as ways to continue to play solitaire on your modern device - to the point of it being a genuine minefield of awful monetized versions.
Want to play a solitaire game, right the hell now?
daily knowledge: when Microsoft released Office XP, a feature highlighted in the product's marketing was how Clippy would now be OFF by default. they made a big deal about how much everybody hated him, and in the ads they produced featuring the character, he was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried
Additionally, Clippit has tons of voice clips specifically for addressing the other computer players - which includes other Clippits. He can say things like, "Hey! Paperclip! Ya got any threes?"
One of these days I'll figure out how to dump all the voice clips from this game. If Clippit is winning a game, he will sometimes say things like "All your base belong to us." ...Without the extraneous "are." But Still.
the deck won't quit asking me to "bring the red pages" and he gets upset if i try to play a queen of hearts on him, so i dunno what he wants