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Come on MS! Nobody cares about Solitaire! Just hurry up and release minesweeper already, and stop teasing us!

by qwertyuiop924 10y ago

aardvark179 10y ago
Get 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 ago
  I really don't want to know how much time I wasted in Tents and Squares.
- adito 10y ago
  in 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 ago
Bring back Pinball! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  I 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 ago
  I'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.
  - skeletonjelly 10y ago
    Yeah that's my link! :) The last line is: " Hey everybody asking that the source code be released: The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them." Which seems like a cop out. Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal.
    - Nexxxeh 10y ago
      >Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal. Or "Microsoft, you've got the developers, code a remastered version."
mxfh 10y ago
Wordament is quite competetive fun. For a while this was the only multiplayer game on Windows Phone. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordament/id580935508 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordament/id580935508

Come on MS! Nobody cares about Solitaire! Just hurry up and release minesweeper already, and stop teasing us!

aardvark179 10y ago

Get 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 ago
I really don't want to know how much time I wasted in Tents and Squares.
adito 10y ago
in 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 ago

Bring back Pinball! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I 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 ago
I'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.
- skeletonjelly 10y ago
  Yeah that's my link! :) The last line is: " Hey everybody asking that the source code be released: The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them." Which seems like a cop out. Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal.
  - Nexxxeh 10y ago
    >Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal. Or "Microsoft, you've got the developers, code a remastered version."

mxfh 10y ago

Wordament is quite competetive fun. For a while this was the only multiplayer game on Windows Phone. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordament/id580935508 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordament/id580935508