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Designed by Brodie Lockard, Brad Fregger and Michael Sandige. Macintosh version by Brodie Lockard; Graphics by Dennis Fregger. Read more at MobyGames.com.
This is reputed to be the first commercial Solitaire computer card game. Later, Microsoft copied this formula (of Klondike) to include with Windows in their worldwide war on productivity.
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SolitaireRoyale.zip includes the color version (v1.0, 1988) plus a black and white version taken from Ian Gilman's Ishido page (v1.0, 1987).
solitaireroyale_400k_dsk.sit is a DiskDup image of the black and white version on its original bootable 400K media (v1.1, 1988).
Macfreegames.com also has a version 1.1 in French and B&W only.
See also: Klondike, Absolute Solitaire, Hoyle Solitaire, Solitaire Antics, Solitaire Mania
CompatibilitySeems to work with everything from System 3.2 up to Mac OS 9.2.2.