I thought a nice card game was missing in my collection of games so here it is:
Application: Big Solitaire 3D
Category: Games
Description: Big Solitaires 3D is a collection of 40 solitaire games with OpenGL 3D rendering.
Download Big Solitaires 1.4 Development Test 3[ 4 MB download / 14.6 MB installed]
Screenshots: available
Release Notes:
Version 1.4 Dev Test 3 (2011-02-12)
Updated Icon (Thanks John!) and cleaned the Readme a bit
Version 1.4 Dev Test 2 (2011-02-12)
Updated to PAL
Version 1.4 Dev Test 1 (2009-10-28) Initial release
It seems to me that this game isn't in active development any longer. But its fairly nice.
I hope you guys like it and many thanks to Patrick for his continued support by hosting all my Dev Tests!
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It's a shame nobody else commented here. Anyway, I haven't run into any major problems.
A nice solitaire game is what's missing from the official apps lineup. Hopefully this gets fast-tracked to official status in a big hurry, if OpenGL is compatible with a lot of computers, that is.
Sudoku is cool, but while the official Sudoku Portable leaves a lot to be desired, the natively portable "Solo" (it's part of someone's portable games pack) is good.
I also have been running BigSol for a while now and haven't had any problems. I've run it on a PowerSpec machine 3 GHz Pentium with 3 gig Ram and also a Lenovo with a QuadCore processor.
Both machines run XP SP3.
for all the positive feedback.
I'm glad its all working for you.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Going to try it out tonight while waiting for new beta of PAM. I'll try to give you some feedback tomorrow.
I used to sign here, but the ink keeps smudging on my screen.
I've just tried it in windows 7 pro 64bit, and it worked, but I had to run it with admin rights
IMO Big Solitaires Portable is rather a game than a utility
I noticed that you have 2 *.reg-files in your settingsdirectory. If you want only one file you could look at my FreeMat Portable launcher. It saves the registry keys into one file. (Sorry for this ad, but you could save a few lines of code that way, especially the "RestoreThe2Key" part).
*me thinks this is ready for Pre-Release
Finally I had a look at it today and implemented your suggestions
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Game worked awesome once Irenamed the launcher.exe file to match the appinfo.ini file
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
I missed that one.
I fixed it locally a while ago. It will be fixed once I update it to the latest PAL.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Yes, everything works great once you rename the file.
Nice game, I'm glad to have be able to use it. Thanks for porting it!
Im glad you like it and am planning to get a new dev test out with an updated launcher and this fix included.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I was going through my PortableApps.com directory and came across Big Solitaire. What's the update and/or release status on this?
There's only one card game (PokerTH) on the official list and this would expand the category.
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
Its a development test right now but could be released once its updated to the latest launcher.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
It is a standard app that should be represented at PortableApps.com. Thanks for your efforts on this.
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
to PAL.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I've got one for you: https://portableapps.com/temp/BigSolitairesPortable_128.png
Download ICO and 3 PNGs: https://portableapps.com/temp/BigSolitairesIcons.zip
It's from the Crystal icon set by Everaldo released under the GPL (include a text file called IconLicense.txt in Other\Source mentioning this and that the GPL is included in the same directory).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
John.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
...or, is source code available? i posted six or seven (mostly simple) bugs a few weeks ago on sourceforge, and then again on the original author's website, only to find there didn't appear to be any further development, and the original author says he's done...
thanks.
Available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/big3dsol/files/Big3DSol%20win32/
MJA
Nothing has changed on the website as long as I know about it (2009) which is a bit sad. All the activity (bug reports, feature requests) are from 2008 or earlier. Maybe you could take it over and improve it as it seems dead/out of development to me.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate