there r sum apps or shal i say games dat i playd and its kinda rubbish and im getting bored wid al da games i hav so can i request games like tetris or games with good animation plzzz 
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Welcome Muizz to PortableApps.com
Could you link to a game or two [at most], preferably free and open source, that you would like to see if we can make portable?
btw, standard English is preferred in posts
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
We are sorely missing a Tetris clone. It's only the best puzzle video game ever. I don't get why Windows sticks you with Solitaire (the ultimate staple game) and this Minesweeper crap, and some other shovelware, which often includes a half-decent pinball game... but no Tetris. Linux has the right idea, some distros come with over a dozen games. Speaking of which, the Lightcycle game would be fun, too.
NetHack isn't exactly open source, it's got its own license, but it's OSI approved. We could do it. Well, someone who can code could do it. And that's one of the earliest games, and still one of the hardest. It's like that running/jumping game that just hit last week or the week before. You will die eventually, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Except with NetHack there is maybe a one in 10,000 chance you will actually get that amulet and escape.
Commodore-Amiga fans may remember SnakePit, but good luck getting the source to that. I don't think it's open source though, it's most likely abandonware, but it was freeware. It's been copied so many times. MS-DOS has a basic version of it (pun intended -- it came with QBASIC) and some Motorola phones had it, too. The original had blocks you could push, blocks that only appeared after you passed over them, food that would make your snake grow, and food that would make your snake shrink. You had to eat all the grow pellets, and then a hole would open somewhere in the wall, and you'd have to get to it. And of course you couldn't run into yourself. Might have to fire up my Amiga emulator when I get home, see if I can't find some names, look up some contact information. Amiga games were portable anyway, I don't know about porting though.
I don't get why Windows sticks you with Solitaire .. and this Minesweeper
Do you really not know why?
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Not specifically, no.
Generally, it's the same thing Microsoft always does. They buy some little company, re-brand their product, slap their name on it and pass it off as theirs. I've heard this about a few of their programs. Internet Explorer's one.
Here's the thing though, they've actually done more games. Windows 98 had a Plus! pack that had games. Tetris was one. The only other one of note was called Jezzball and that attained a bit of a cult following. Why they didn't include those in future versions of Windows is beyond me.
Is there a specific reason you know of that Windows has such a spartan selection of games when there are so many decent and good free timewasters out there they could have used? Solitaire is fine; other than Windows itself and the file manager, Solitaire is probably the best thing that comes with Windows. I mean, you can get a better browser, a better text editor, a better media player, but you really can't improve upon Solitaire (actually Klondike). Now Minesweeper is something else. It makes you think, but it's a mean game. If, starting out, you step on a mine, it's over, bam, all your progress gone. You have to have a lot of luck starting out before you get to where you have to use your brain. So it seems real strange to me that this random little game has stuck around so long.
Window Solitare and Mindsweeper are not really games, they are teaching tools.
Solitiare teaches drag and drop,
Mindsweeper teaches clicks, right clicks, etc.
When we first moved to Windows at work the "old timers" were required to play both of them before they could use the new Windows production apps.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
I never thought of that. If you are correct it is actually a very intelligent ploy by Microsoft in my opinion.
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Brilliant! Never thought about it like that.
Apple always had that cool mouse tutorial, back on System 7. With the scuba diver, I doubt anyone who used Macs in school missed that. (I miss Hypercard too, but that's beside the point.)
But even if your theory was true in 1995, it doesn't really hold much water nearly 15 years later. Especially now that Microsoft has buggered drag & drop in Windows 7. It still works for their apps, and some third-party apps, but they changed a few things about it, and the feature is essentially broken in some apps. Even so, little kids know the basic functions of a Windows PC.
i dont know why either
Master. M. Siddique
How do I link files to dis
Master. M. Siddique
upload and post the link?