>> From: David Jonathan Justman <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> > What's FreeCell? Another card game?
>> This is a card game that came out with and around the time
>> of Windows for WorkGroups. It has been on the Win95 CD-Roms
>> ever since, to the best of my knowledge.
DG> It actually originated as a demonstration of 32-bit coding for
DG> Windows NT 3.x (3.51?). I recall that there was some surprise when
DG> a 16-bit version of the game appeared on the Win95 CD -- apparently
DG> this was the easiest way to make it share CARDS.DLL with Solitaire
DG> and Hearts. (It was Hearts, with it's network play, that came out
DG> with WfWG.)
I could be wrong (it was over a year ago I last saw it), but I had this game
installed by Win32s (Windows 3.1 extension which allowed it to execute
32-bit code) as a sample 32 bit application. I think it's better than
Hearts.
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