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TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

51 pointsby skibzyesterday at 5:42 PM14 commentsview on HN

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inatreecrown2today at 2:55 AM

That gas-plasma display looks gorgeous, it looks more "analogue" than lcd to me. Are these still produced or is this "dead" technology?

omoikaneyesterday at 9:14 PM

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)

bananaboyyesterday at 10:44 PM

Hey 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!

ctippettyesterday at 10:40 PM

Late (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.

pan69yesterday at 8:35 PM

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.

sys_64738yesterday at 7:26 PM

This is real hacker news! Well done :)

febedtoday at 2:03 AM

8086 and up! Amazing

petiepoooyesterday at 7:20 PM

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

ranger_dangeryesterday at 9:47 PM

Not open source apparently?

ranger_dangeryesterday at 9:42 PM

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.

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creadoyesterday at 7:24 PM

Good work