TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by skibz » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
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Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by petiepooo » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

Very nice. How about site where we can play it in the browser? There are several wasm dos simulators..

Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by creado » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

Good work

Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by sys_64738 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

This is real hacker news! Well done :)

Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by pan69 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 8:35 PM UTC

Solitiny :)

> NOTE: For DosBox users, DosBox doesn’t seem to support AT&T 6300 but the other modes work fine.

I'm pretty sure DOSBox supports the Olivetti M24 graphics mode.

Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by omoikane » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

Related, Oscar Toledo also made a tiny Klondike Solitaire program for IOCCC, I wonder if it was inspired by this one:

https://nanochess.org/klondike_in_c.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450024 - Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C (2026-06-08, 17 comments)

Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

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Post by ranger_danger » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 9:42 PM UTC

I like to think I'm decent with C, and I thought I would be able to make my own solitaire, but just trying to wrap my head around how in the world I was supposed to lay out all the cards in memory and keep track of all the different states had me giving up pretty quickly.