TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
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TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
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Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
#2Very nice. How about site where we can play it in the browser? There are several wasm dos simulators..
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#3Good work
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#4This is real hacker news! Well done :)
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#5Solitiny :)
> 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
#6Related, 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
#7I 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.
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#8Not open source apparently?
Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
#9Late (late.sh) has solitaire available to play over SSH (along with minesweeper, tetris, battleships, chess... and many more). You'd be surprised at how well a lot of games translate just fine to being rendered on a simple interface.
Re: TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
#10Hey very nice! I made a 386+VGA Solitaire game a while back for a game jam https://horsedrawngames.itch.io/solitaire I always meant to go back and optimise it more because it shouldn’t require a Pentium!