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I think I broke Microsoft Solitaire

Discussion in 'Technical Discussion' started by nineko, Feb 20, 2014.

  1. nineko

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    By clicking on certain cards in certain ways, it's possible to duplicate other cards or make them disappear:
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    No I don't have more informations about this, hence why I wrote "certain cards" and "certain ways", I managed to do this by random but I could replicate it by mashing the mouse buttons on various cards for a while. I wonder if anyone knows more about this?

    edit:

    Here's another example:
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    It's barely visible behind the 2 of spades, but see how an orange card has been pulled instead of the 2 of clubs. Also, the score should be $208, not $238, since -$52 + (52 × $5) = $208, there are $30 in excess, equivalent to 6 nonexisting cards o.O
     
  2. Covarr

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  3. nineko

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    Well, shit:

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    I have no way to put that ace of spades up there :|
     
  4. stormislandgal

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    This happened to me ages ago when I was trying my absolute fastest to go through a deck. It seems to happen when you mash both mouse buttons on a card at the same time if it's able to be moved somewhere automatically via right-click.
     
  5. nineko

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    Yes, I think it's consistent with what happened to me. I guess that they broke it when they added the right click routine.
     
  6. Shadow Hog

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    Interesting, never seen that happen. Does that carry over to the Windows 7 variant as well?
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  7. MainMemory

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    All the games were completely rewritten in Vista, so no.
     
  8. Rika Chou

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    Well on the reddit link someone got it to happen on Windows 8.
     
  9. nineko

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    Can anyone upload the sol.exe (or whatever they renamed it) Solitaire.exe from a modern version of Windows? I'd like to stress test it a bit if it runs fine in Windows XP.

    edit: it has to be 32-bit, or I can't run it (thanks anyway, MainMemory).
     
  10. Rika Chou

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    http://www.4shared.com/rar/Ne50_z8Cce/Solitaire.html

    From 32-bit Windows 7.
     
  11. nineko

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    Interesting, I can't run that one, either. XP says it's not a valid 32-bit application, but at least I can see its icon (I couldn't even see the icon of the one MainMemory sent me). Meh, I give up.

    Still, thanks.
     
  12. LocalH

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    Given the fact that the Vista and 7 (and likely 8 but I haven't used 8) versions of Solitaire are more smoothly animated than the old pre-Vista Solitaire, I would imagine they use DX10 minimum since those on Vista and 7 have that version or higher. This is pure speculation on my part, but may be worth investigating by someone who is good at debugging Windows apps.
     
  13. nineko

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    I'm getting good at replicating this at will:
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  14. Meat Miracle

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    And that is just one more reason why Freecell is better.

    It also has this smug motherfucker:
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