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Solitaire Royale

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Category:	Card & Casino
Perspective:	Top Down
Year released:	1987
Author:	Software Resources International
Publisher:	Spectrum HoloByte
Engine:

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SolitaireRoyale.zip (8.59 MB)
MD5: 59bc88843cc8bfaa6d0dead62b3f5500
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9

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solitaireroyale_400k_dsk.sit (193.85 KB)
MD5: 46853b560416be44322933dd516c1c4c
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
SRManual.pdf

Emulation
This game works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac

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.

Features:

8 Solitaire games: Pyramid, Golf, Klondike, Canfield, Corners, Calculation, Three Shuffles and a Draw, Reno.
Tour and Tournament options.
3 children's games: Concentration, Pairs, and The Wish.
In-game Help and How to Play files.
12 different card decks.
4 backgrounds.

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.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Seems to work with everything from System 3.2 up to Mac OS 9.2.2.