Poker Solitaire
| Filename | poker-solitaire.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 79.3 KB (81170 bytes) |
| Downloads | 7 |
Poker Solitaire is an early-1990s single-player card game for the Macintosh, submitted to Info-Mac as version 0.9B by Michael Wolf on February 9, 1993. The game combines standard poker hand-ranking with a solitaire-style card placement puzzle and ships with detailed online help built into the application.
Submission and author
The BinHex archive was posted from wolfmc@green.rtsg.mot.com (Motorola's Radio Telephone Systems Group address of the era) and went into the Info-Mac game/crd subdirectory, which is where the surviving copy still sits in the funet mirror.
Gameplay concept
Poker Solitaire is the well-known patience variant in which the player deals 25 cards into a 5x5 grid, scoring each row and column as a poker hand. The Mac implementation predates many later commercial versions and was distributed before the game reached version 1.0.
Help and documentation
The submission notes specifically call out that "there is online help which is well detailed," reflecting a late-System-6/early-System-7 convention of building reference material directly into the application rather than shipping a separate Read Me file.
Distribution status
The Info-Mac upload is freeware-style hobbyist software; the version number (0.9B) suggests a public beta that was never followed by a 1.0. It survives today only through the Info-Mac and funet mirrors.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
