SolSuite Solitaire 2008 8.7

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SolSuite Solitaire 2008 is a collection of 490 solitaire card games, featuring animated and custom cards, dozens of backgrounds, automatic play, high scores, and sounds. All of your favorite games are included, such as Spider, Klondike, FreeCell, Pyramid, Golf, Canfield, Forty Thieves, Flower Garden, and the original Solitaire. Its features include a create-a-new-card-set wizard, a multiplayer mode, a rules wizard and a tutor.

Version 8.7 adds two new solitaire games: Gavotte and West Virginia Reel (Original game).

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  SolSuite Solitaire 2008

  5 stars from me

  by: bokkelok1 on 11-Jul-2008 03:48:47 AM

  Pros: I like the games and the layouts

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  SolSuite Solitaire 2008

  love this program, upgrades easy and fast!!

  by: karyncarl5984 on 13-Jul-2008 07:57:29 PM

  Pros: I have had this program for about a year. they notify me of the new card packs and graphics about every month or so. that was a bonus that i did not expect. using the program is easy and greatly entertaining.

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  SolSuite Solitaire 2008

  World-Class In Some Areas, Surprisingly Mediocre In Others

  by: steppinwolf on 20-Jul-2008 08:09:49 PM

  Pros: Enormous selection of solitaire games (more than you may ever find time to play). Best-of-breed collection of beautifully rendered card sets and backs, each with 7 size adjustments to delight the eyes at every screen resolution. Generous selection of attractive backgrounds. Excellent game support with rules help, legal moves display and even demos. Card counter. Extensive game statistics. Multi-player mode. Nice looking selection of avatars which, although very limited, can be expanded by adding your own. I'd rate Solitaire 2008 a 5+ based on these features. So why only 3 stars? Read on...

  Cons: Sounds take you back to the Win95 days---literally and figuratively. Win a game and hear the lame Win95 "tada.wav". To make matters worse, there's no way to customize sounds other than to enable or disable them (sounds appear to be hard-coded in the executable). Games don't automatically pause when SolSuite window loses focus. Accessing any menu or toolbar--for example to change card size or check the rules--automatically unpauses a paused game. Instead of notifying "no more moves" when a game is over, Solitaire 2008 just sits there waiting for you to figure it out. Tip: hitting 'M' at this point will display "No more moves", so it would be nice and obviously easy for SolSuite to do this automatically. A few less important annoyances: Win95-era winning animations and pointless list of fake names/scores in the high scores dialog. Most of these cons should be easy to fix, so it's disappointing to see so many new versions come and go with no improvement in these areas.

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  SolSuite Solitaire 2008

  Good

  by: Robert Swafford on 16-Jul-2008 01:33:00 PM

  Pros: Always enjoining playing

  Cons: Looks good

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  SolSuite Solitaire 2008

  Great product and great support

  by: fh43 on 16-Jul-2008 01:10:27 PM

  Pros: Great product and great support

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