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Pysolfc (solitaire)

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The "fc" (fanclub edition) fork of this moldy oldie is still maintained, a python/tk based solitaire game. The current version, pysolfc 3.0.0 was March 31 2024.

https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/

I wouldn't have thought so, but it's available for Windows too (and Mac for that matter), which would be dead nuts easy because you'd just run an installer which would install the python interpreter along with it and everything.

Anyway, Microsoft can't make you sign in to the Windows store to get this and display ads in your program :mrgreen:

It is, however, quite a fugly toolkit, at least the tk-X interface. It'll look like a program from the 90's (motif-like, helvetica fonts etc. they all emulated that style back then, it's just what "X Windows" looked like). I couldn't tell you what this would look like on Windows.

However, the card sets are half decent and most importantly, scale when you drag the window larger. There are many solitaire games available, and many variations of them at that, but I mostly just like Klondike 3 card draw (or sometimes Spider). A little clicking around in the options menu, and this is pretty easy on the eyes:

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Re: Pysolfc (solitaire)

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Ahh, this program actually has freetype font support on Arch. I think I have to build tk and/or tkinter with freetype support on Gentoo. (I was surprised to see truetype fonts in it, I always remember it being old X11 fonts)

So don't let that screenshot turn anyone off... in your distro (or Windows) it probably looks better. I could have chosen a nicer icon style for that screenshot too, that's configurable in the program.

So it's not fair for me to present it as fugly (though I wasn't really complaining, it's kind of nostalgic). The card sets and game are nice, that's what counts anyway but the fonts etc. can look nice too.
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Re: Pysolfc (solitaire)

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Fixed in Gentoo :mrgreen:

I had to recompile tk with USE="truetype". While I was at it I hacked a style. It used to be a light blue one.

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