03-31-2003, 08:31 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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My RAM is Here, Wall and High Score
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0,39001748,39008520p,00.htm
Spring is on its way to Sweden bringing garden work and outdoor activities to the agenda. We started building a second stone wall, but it won't come anywhere near our first in size. The last six months have been a tough at work. Too little RAM in my laptop: 700 MHz, 512 MB RAM. Finally, I get to order a new: 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM. Ed recently asked: "WIMR? (Where Is My Ram?)". Well, I know my RAM is heading this way!
To end this rather off-topic beginning of this week I have two questions. The last couple of weeks I have played... Solitaire. I've set it to draw one card and keep a standard scoring.
Q1: My high score is 710 and it seems it can't get any higher. Can it?
Q2: Does anyone know the true story behind Solitaire and why this simple game has made it into almost every Windows version?
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03-31-2003, 09:11 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 633
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I'd say "Dude, you're getting a Dell"
Good question re Solitaire. I'm more impressed that you got 710 than puzzled by what it's possible to get. You must play a lot. 8O :lol:
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03-31-2003, 09:13 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by DrtyBlvd
I'd say "Dude, you're getting a Dell"
Good question re Solitaire. I'm more impressed that you got 710 than puzzled by what it's possible to get. You must play a lot. 8O :lol:
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Yes, it's a Dell. I've gone to Dell three times recently. My home PC, Pocket PC and now this...
It's been many Solitaire games lately!  ops:
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03-31-2003, 11:15 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 315
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512 megs to LITTLE? id say its your cpu and video chipset thats keeping you down. I play the latest games on 512 megs pretty easily.
as for your 2nd solitare question, my guess is.. because theres nothing new to code! the solitare in winxp isnt all that different from what you got in windows 95. Its also not hard to code.. heck I could program the logic part of it right now... make up a flash version of the game even. ^^
I'll prolly get dell if I ever upgrade my toshiba in the next year or 2.. but the toshiba I baught does everything but gaming, so im very content with it. I baught the toshiba useing a kick butt rebate.
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03-31-2003, 12:02 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: My RAM is Here, Wall and High Score
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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
To end this rather off-topic beginning of this week I have two questions. The last couple of weeks I have played... Solitaire. I've set it to draw one card and keep a standard scoring.
Q1: My high score is 710 and it seems it can't get any higher. Can it?
Q2: Does anyone know the true story behind Solitaire and why this simple game has made it into almost every Windows version?
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You should be able to calculate the highest possible score. Let's try. :-)
Assume a non-timed game; you lose 2 points every 10 seconds in a timed game. You get 10 points for each card moved to the home row, 5 points for each card moved onto the board from the draw pile and 5 points for each card on the board you turn over. There are 28 cards on the main board to start, 21 of which are covered. That leaves 24 cards in the draw pile.
So, the highest possible score = 21 * 5 + 24 * 5 + 52 * 10 = 105 + 120 + 520 = 745.
Steve
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03-31-2003, 12:15 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Go for a timed game! If you complete the game you get a really big bonus at the end! My high score is something like 5200... 
There was actually a topic a while back about the presence of solitare in every Windows machine to date:
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/foru...pic.php?t=5074
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03-31-2003, 12:46 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I agree, processor is holding you back not RAM. But you can't get much higher than 2GHz for laptops without cutting off several limbs, so it's a killer system 1GB ram or 512MB.
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03-31-2003, 01:45 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Re: My RAM is Here, Wall and High Score
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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
Q2: Does anyone know the true story behind Solitaire and why this simple game has made it into almost every Windows version?
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I thought everyone knew this. It's there because it teaches you how to use a mouse, click and drag, etc... It's there to help new users get familiar with the OS and mice. I know, mice are nothing new, but they were when windows first came out. This was designed for that reason.
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03-31-2003, 02:24 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Best solitaire game/setup ever:
Vegas scoring, no timed game, draw one card. Each person plays 3 games all in a row and then compare scores at the end. 
In college my roommate and I played this just about every night before we went to sleep.
:rock on dude!:
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03-31-2003, 02:30 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Re: My RAM is Here, Wall and High Score
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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
Q2: Does anyone know the true story behind Solitaire and why this simple game has made it into almost every Windows version?
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FWIW, it didn't exist in Windows 1.x (Reversi was the only game back then). I think Windows 2.x was the first version to feature Solitaire (i.e., Solitaire and Reversi). v3.x replaced Reversi with Minesweeper.
--janak
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