On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Donald Paul Martin wrote:
> I downloaded another Freecell program and put it in
> C:\Download\FreeCellSolver , as one would expect me to. Then I saw
> a message about your new Freecell program and I placed it in
> C:\Download\FreeCellSolver\NewFreeCell.
>
> After that, I expanded it and it and it ended up in the NewFreeCell
> subdirectory. Apparently that is too many subdirectories deep. The
> program frequently blew up.
>
> This morning I copied NewFreeCell to C:\ and since then it has
> worked much better. It blew up once on one computer, but that is
> all.
>
> I then copied NewFreeCell to the C:\ directory of a machine running
> Windows Vista and it worked for about 10 seconds. I tried it again
> and it failed immediately. Three more times, the same result. An
> error in the C:\ directory. It also failed on my Vista 64 machine.
> There it failed harder.
>
> I love the program and will continue using it on my XP machines, now
> that I have it working on them. I will send you a contribution for
> your efforts.
>
> You should play FreeCell on Vista. It is improved over XP but still
> has bugs in it. For example, the new Vista FreeCell gives you the
> option of saving the game you are working on if you have to quit
> FreeCell or quit Windows Vista. The bug is that if you quit a game
> and solve the next ten games and quit playing, it will come up with
> the stupid old (ten games ago) game and ask you to complete solving
> it. I am sure you could do better.
>
Microsoft Freecell sucks big time. For better ones see:
1.
http://www.rrhistorical.com/rrdata/Fcpro65/
2.
http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Received on Wed May 23 2007 - 01:20:53 IDT