Solitaire House

Solitaire House (sibling Info-Mac entry) is Ingemar Ragnemalm's 1998 thirty-game solitaire collection for the Macintosh, archived twice on Info-Mac because the developer's first upload was lost in transit and a second, otherwise identical submission was filed shortly after.

What this version is

This node mirrors the same v1.0 build as the primary entry: a unified launcher housing thirty patience variants - Klondike, Spider, Freecell (called Napoleon here), Montana, Canfield, 40 Thieves, Pyramid, and many less-common games - with multi-step undo, on-line rules, auto-save on quit, and per-user profiles for shared Macs.

Why two entries exist

The author's BinHex header explicitly notes "This should go in game/crd. It is the second time I upload it, since the first seems to have been lost somehow," which is why two slightly different submissions ended up living side by side on the Info-Mac mirror and each acquired their own catalogue node here. The actual binary is the same Solitaire House 1.0 application.

Presentation and engine

The interface scales from a 9-inch Mac Plus up through 800x600 and beyond, with five card sizes and Susanne Ragnemalm's honor-card art. Thirteen music scores ship in the box, alongside legal-move highlighting and grouped highlighting (e.g. "all 5s"). It runs as a fat 68k/PPC binary under System 7 and Mac OS 9, with SheepShaver compatibility for modern emulation.

Distribution

Released as $20 shareware by Ingemar Ragnemalm out of Linkoping, Sweden, the title was distributed as a roughly 1.5 MB BinHex archive through Info-Mac and later mirrored to Macintosh Garden. Both Info-Mac entries point at the same upstream developer and the same release.