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TIL solitaire in Windows 10 has ads that can be turned off with a paid subscription. πŸ’€
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Nina Kalinina
@promovicz IIRC there were rumors that Windows 11 might eventually deprecate 32-bit support. But there's Wine for Windows to bypass that. And Wine for Ubuntu on WSL, too.
in reply to Ethan Blanton

@elb there are multiple versions of Solitaire - they have different decks, and different target architecture. I'm curious to compare winsol.exe from 16-bit windows, 32-bit NT 3.51, 32-bit 4.00.95, and perhaps 64-bit 2000 and idk Windows 7 - but who has time for that t_t
in reply to Nina Kalinina

It would be pretty interesting to identify when/if they just rewrote the darn thing. I suspect not until very late in the game -- I know notepad.exe retained its 64 kB file size limit for a very long time because it was just a 16-bit segmented executable.
in reply to Ethan Blanton

@elb apparently Solitaire kept getting new features all the time. Windows 2000 got new improved UX, then in XP they replaced the arts, Vista offered improved statistician, and Windows 7 version seemingly got 3D effects. The original binaries were dropped in Windows 10 and replaced by an applet with ads.
in reply to Nina Kalinina

Well, that explains why I didn't know, I quit using Windows as a daily driver before '95 (3.1 and NT 4 were my last hurrahs) and basically never touched anything XP or later except in a VM for software testing.

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