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Peter K - 27 Sep 2006 18:47 GMT
Many people, including myself, have plaid certain games for 10 to 15 years &
are familiar withthe 'Windows classic' look, unchanged from Win 3.1 days, if
not earlier.

I have noticed some improvements in the new versions of the games.  But, in
total, I'd prefer the 'old' versions.

Could importing the old versions be offered as an option?

For the next five years, or so, I'll have Win XP on at least one of my three
desktops & with VNC I can always tun it from any machine.  On the laptop I
could keep the dual boot, but, i"d prefer to just have Vista there.  So,
there is a limited 'workaround' possible.  But why not offer the 'old' look &
function as an option.

I'm sure it will make lots of people happy, once Vista is commercially
available.

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Cy!on - 27 Sep 2006 20:22 GMT
> Many people, including myself, have plaid certain games for 10 to 15 years
> &
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> I'm sure it will make lots of people happy, once Vista is commercially
> available.

You could always just copy the exe file onto a CD and paste it into the
Vista folders.
You still get the aero 'fade open' effect, but the in-game graphics are
still the XP/98/95-style ones.
Peter K - 30 Sep 2006 19:36 GMT
I'll try that.  Reason I thought it would not work:  In the 'old' days, ones
scores were kept in a .ini file or something like that, so everybody half way
cognisant would play with his/her scores.  Then, I guess with WinXP, that
disappeared & I thought the scures  were now kept in the registry.  If so,
that would require an installation, so the proper registry keys & settings
would be generated.

We;ll see. Ths for the suggestion.  Peter K

> > Many people, including myself, have plaid certain games for 10 to 15 years
> > &
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> You still get the aero 'fade open' effect, but the in-game graphics are
> still the XP/98/95-style ones.
Peter K - 30 Sep 2006 20:34 GMT
Amazing!  It's even simpler than I yhought.

Copied from Win XP installation freecell.exe, freecell.hlp & .chm to a flash
drive.  Had to add cards.dll.

Took the flash drive to my Win Vista machine & just ran it straight from the
flash drive.
It had my latest Win XP freecell statistics with it!

After four or five games, none of the files on the flash drive indicated any
recent modifications.  So, where are those data stored?

Beautiful.  I know several people who'll be happy with that.  Thxs for
telling me.

Peter
 
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