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Microsoft Solitaire Collection
- pinewurst 10y agoI'm still waiting for iOS Bob.
- freeslugs 10y ago166 MB! :O
- sdegutis 10y agoGood :O or bad :O ?
- klodolph 10y agoEh, it certainly seems excessive, but when you're doing iOS development you end up with a lot of high-resolution images, audio files, and other assets that you can't really justify eliminating.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIt's a lot more than the original Solitaire. Games like FreeCell and Spider are baked in, it has daily challenges, Xbox Live integration and achievements, etc. FWIW, the Windows version is larger, 232 MB.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoSolitaire first came with Windows 3.0. The entire OS required 7MB free disk space.
- tonyplee 10y agoBut it didn't have all those ads.
- thought_alarm 10y ago113 MB of PowerVR textures and fonts (a number of fonts are included twice in an embedded framework). 48 MB of code and frameworks (including 10 MB for Swift). http://imgur.com/a/MezGl http://imgur.com/a/MezGl
- Answerawake 10y agoHow does one go about getting a listing like this? I am new to iOS and macOS and I'd like to learn. Can I pull the equivalent of a iOS ".apk" file and decompile it like Android?
- mfarris 10y agoOne method: navigate to the file in the Mac OS Finder, right-click on the icon, choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu.
- mmozeiko 10y agoYes, you get ipa file for application, which is pretty much zip file (same as apk). Unpack it and you'll get folder structure you see in screenshot.
- JimDabell 10y agoIf you download the iOS application in iTunes, or sync your applications from your device to iTunes, then you can drag the applications out of iTunes onto your desktop. That's an IPA file, which is essentially a zip file following a specific format. Just rename from .ipa to .zip and unzip it. You can now inspect the application's contents.
- eps 10y agoAll the telemetry, tracking and ad frameworks - you know, all the good stuff that people so eagerly swallowed with the W10 pill.
- TrisMcC 10y agoAndroid version is 75.65MB installed for me.
- DanBC 10y agoiOS 8 or later!
- jmkni 10y agoI recently purchased the original Sonic the Hedgehog for my XBOX One, 512MB!!
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoWaiting for the Windows Phone release. (crickets) (Dammit, even the 'MS Studios' games get pointless ads. Class act there.)
- the_unknown 10y agoMicrosoft Solitaire Collection has been available on Windows Phone for quite a long time. Actually many of their casual games are available as universal apps on Windows 10 desktop/mobile. Runs very well on my Lumia 950 XL
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoHad genuinely blocked it out, my memory being merciful to me. Tried it a couple of years ago, and it was terrible - bad interface and heated up the phone like it was an FPS. Deleted and got Bernardo Zamora's Solitaire, which is much nicer.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago> Lumia 950 XL The one great game I found labeled MS Studios was Shuffle Party, a very nice shuffleboard/bowling simulator that runs 3D animations without heating up the phone and draining the battery. (Also signed 'Babaroga', probably some competent Russians saving the day ;-)
- moyta 10y agoWindows Phone is a burning platform at this point, Microsoft canned most of the people working on it and left a few dozen interns working on it, hence why the Windows 10 images for the Lumia as of late have been very unstable. Sadly, its time to migrate off Windows Phone.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoI'm very sad about it, too. The Metro Design line was a good mobile platform that's being gradually degraded and left to rot. I have trouble believing that a 90%-10% duopoly in mobile platforms is an healthy steady state for this market. Probably something else - not as good - will come in and occupy the vacuum.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI don't understand how Microsoft decides that building a solitaire app this is the most efficient allocation of people's time and resources.
- rubyfan 10y agoThis comment is hilariously ironic.
- moyta 10y agoIt is. Commenter doesn't understand that Microsoft is just trying to regain lost ground & mindshare at this point, hence why you can get Office on your Android device for free, and it works better than it does on Windows.
- rubyfan 10y agoI was going with the irony of commenter asserting that building the game is an inefficient allocation of MS resources when in fact productive time lost due to the ubiquity of these games has probably been one of the single most contributors to inefficient use of time in the last century (you know, due to people playing the games).
- Hydraulix989 10y agoOh I totally understand, and my point was that Office on Android (or iOS) is much more of a value-add than Solitaire on Android (or iOS).
- yareally 10y agoThe original one was built by one intern[1], so it's quite possible so was this one. Not a huge resource suck when you are delegating one person to the job who just wants to learn. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_that_microsoft_solitaire_was_developed_by_a/cylwpua/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_t...
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- qwertyuiop924 10y agoCome on MS! Nobody cares about Solitaire! Just hurry up and release minesweeper already, and stop teasing us!
- aardvark179 10y agoGet the port of Simon Tatham's puzzle collection to iOS and your minesweeper needs will be sorted.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...It's just not the same. :-(
- yoodenvranx 10y agoI really don't want to know how much time I wasted in Tents and Squares.
- adito 10y agoin case for someone who didn't know: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
- skeletonjelly 10y agoBring back Pinball! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI forgot about this. Yeah, that was one of my favorite games on WinXP as a kid. I even installed it on my Linux machine once, under WINE: if you miss it too, I reccomend you do the same: works like a charm.
- Analemma_ 10y agoI'm on mobile and can't find the link at the moment, but somebody at Microsoft (Raymond Chen maybe?) did a blog post about Pinball and why it's not in Windows anymore and not likely to make a comeback. IIRC it was written by an outside company, and the code is extremely hairy and was deemed too much effort to port to 64-bit for the return they'd get.
- countryqt30 10y ago166 MB?! WTF?! Microsoft's mission statement: We strive to balance all hardware performance increases with bad software, such that the overall performance continuously decreases!
- vinylkey 10y ago> such that the overall performance continuously decreases While I agree that 166 MB seems like a bit much for a solitaire game, how does application size have anything to do with performance? Overwatch takes up 30+ GB on my PC, doesn't mean it has poor performance...
- aymenim 10y agowith App thining it usually would be half, because it just downloads the thin binary of the executable and frameworks and also the assets for the screen size ..., but in this case it is almost equal, crazy universal : 157.91 MB, iPhone4,1 : 136.13 MB, iPad2,5 : 136.11 MB, iPhone8,4 : 137.30 MB
- eps 10y ago"Free Premium for one month"
- eodnjs2998 10y agoTry Decked Out :) Its completly free! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/solitaire-decked-out-ad-free/id1153389718 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/solitaire-decked-out-ad-free...
- q3r3qr3q 10y agoSpace Cadet pinball would be a lot nicer.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIn case anyone's curious, this is what happened to Pinball: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=... Suffice to say, if they couldn't figure out how to make it work in 64-bit, they're not going to be putting any effort into making it work in UWP and on ARM!
- striking 10y agoIt works fine on Windows 7 and up, though! And even if it didn't, I think it'd be possible to load up DOSBox with Windows 95 and emulate it.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIt will run on 64-bit OSes as-is, because they support 32-bit programs. But if you check out Raymond's response to a comment, he explains that at the time, 32-bit apps weren't supported in 64-bit Windows until much later. And even once it was possible, it wasn't considered proper to ship an OS component that wasn't actually 64-bit. (Note that while everyone's still been using 32-bit Internet Explorer for the most part, 64-bit IE has always been included on 64-bit Windows OSes.)
- NeutronBoy 10y agoIIRC Windows XP 64-bit was supposed to be a pure 64-bit OS - no compatibility layer for 32-bit apps. Which is most of the reason it didn't get some great adoption. Later versions of 64-bit Windows had that compatibility layer.
- asveikau 10y ago64-bit XP ran 32 bit apps just fine. A little more than a decade ago I built a machine with it, and wound up giving it to my very much non techie parents who had no issues with it. I think the only thing I had trouble with on that machine was finding drivers for a particular printer.
- bsharitt 10y agoMy last hurdle to switch to Mac is finally gone. EDIT: I guess this is for iOS, so the joke is ruined.
- jasallen 10y agoThis is the most reddit-like comment thread I've ever seen on HN
- golergka 10y agoI love the fact that HN usually doesn't allow these - which males an occasional indulgence much more enjoyable.
- JBiserkov 10y agoNo worries, Macs will soon switch to "OS - a spiritual descendant of iOS and macOS, that we call just 'OS'. It's revolutionary." It's really iOS without the i, and it's a worse combination of touch UI and mouse/keyboard UI than Windows 8, but it's made by Apple, so the tech press will praise it, and people who should know better will buy devices running it by the millions.
- miguelrochefort 10y agoSkiFree please.
- PNWChris 10y agoI'm elated to say there's already a port! https://appsto.re/us/UIpgJ.i https://appsto.re/us/UIpgJ.i
- miguelrochefort 10y agoMy life is complete.
- satysin 10y agoBTW it is not actually free. It will cost $1.99/month for the ad-free version but it is ad-free until the end of the year.
- givinguflac 10y agoI am really confused as to why they think anyone would pay $2/month for solitaire... what happens if you don't pay, is it ad supported or just stops working?
- andromeduck 10y agoWell if the subscription is for no add and you cancel the subscription the obviously the add just come back. Also old people
- minikomi 10y agoThere are cards missing from the deck.
- josefdlange 10y agoThat is devilish.
- satysin 10y agoAd-supported plus some other limited features such as daily challenges. It is the same on Windows 10 with the built in Solitaire app although I think it is $2.49 there(!)
- hobarrera 10y agoWTF? Would anybody actually pay a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION for solitaire?
- orlybach 10y agoI searched "Solitaire" and "Microsoft Solitaire" and it didn't come up. I had to type "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" before I could find it in the App Store. Not to mention it's not even featured under Categories>Games>Cards..
- jklinger410 10y agosite:itunes.apple.com {search query}
- bennyg 10y agoThey're talking about the App Store most likely. Just give it time and it'll rise to the top. Not enough searches -> downloads to sway the servers yet.
- jklinger410 10y agoThe Apple app store is located at itunes.apple.com. I was just trying to help? If you put that search into Google you will get better results than the app store itself.
- CrazedGeek 10y agoAndroid version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.microsoftsolitairecollection https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
- partycoder 10y agoI have to confess that I never learned how to play FreeCell.
- bennyg 10y agoFreeCell's fun (as fun as solitaire can be), you should pick it up.
- partycoder 10y agoBlackjack and Poker are fun but unfortunately there are no casino games in that collection.
- Raphael 10y agoIt's actually a lot better than normal Solitaire. You can stack cards by rank (lower on top) in alternating color. The goal is to get the cards in stacks of their own suit in the reverse order in the upper right. The upper left are the free cells, that can store a single card each. The cool thing is that using the free cells and other empty spots, you can move larger stacks of alternating colors.
- hugi 10y agoYour joke-making license is revoked. Any attempts at joking will result in solitaire confinement.
- Cyph0n 10y agoLet's just throw him over a bridge and be done with it.
- josefdlange 10y agoMy card-joke-related prison has a freecell
- ucaetano 10y agoDeal with it.
- unescape 10y agoI don't have the hearts to continue this.
- cmdrfred 10y agoThis really was ace, jokes in spades.
- nathancahill 10y agoWatch out, we've got a joker here.
- nevster 10y agoCan we mine this for any more jokes - oops that's not a card game
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13026413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13026413 and marked it off-topic.
- julingks 10y agoTry Solitaire Decked Out. https://goo.gl/oeixIi https://goo.gl/oeixIi No ads.
- Yhippa 10y agoSigh...I've been hesitant to download solitaire (Klondike) to my phone until Microsoft ported it. There, I said it.
- sehugg 10y agoI bought Card Shark Collection for $2.99 (like, 5 years ago?) and have gotten my money's worth: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/card-shark-collection-deluxe/id306967807?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/card-shark-collection-deluxe...
- joering2 10y agosomewhat related, saw this today at bed bath and beyond (wtf, truly beyond!) for $39... with wireless controllers. 101 built in games! https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/atari-reg-flashback-7-reg-classic-video-game-console/1047144439?Keyword=atari https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/atari-reg-fla...
- mmanfrin 10y agoIn college I tried to see how many games of Freecell I could win without marking a loss. I got up to 1100 before I played a game that someone sent me (seed) that was unbeatable.
- ape4 10y agoFirefox says "part of this page are not secure (such as images)". You'd think Apple could make it all https.
- ljsocal 10y agoanyone hazard a guess as to how many billion$ of corporate productivity was wasted playing solitaire?