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Creator Of Solitaire For Windows Interviewed
Thanks to B3ta for its interview with Wes Cherry, creator of Solitaire for Windows, as installed on "hundreds of millions of machines worldwide." Cherry discusses an 'Easter egg' left out of the final version ("There was a 'boss-key' which when pressed would display some random .C code. Microsoft made me remove that"), the all-important card back designs ("My fave is the dealer with the Ace crawling up and down his sleeve, which is a reference to a Grateful Dead song, 'Doin' that Rag'"), and bizarre benchmarking concepts using Solitaire ("At one point, a computer magazine proposed a SolMark computer speed test: The faster the cascade, the faster your computer.")
I wonder what my old 486 would make on that test. I think I could have played a game of 52 card pickup (perhaps several) before the cascade finished.
"When God kisses Satan and the Incarnations applaud." "Death is dead. Long live Death!"
this is one of the most useful windows applications, not to mention one of the most stable ones!
the guy deserves more attention than this!
cheers for Wes!
("There was a 'boss-key' which when pressed would display some random .C code. Microsoft made me remove that")
In Windows, due to the presence of frequent and random occurances of blue screens with crpytic messages, having a boss key is redundant.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Just imagine how many thousands of hours the workforce might have had to spend actually working if it wasn't for Wes
Got a copy of Windows 2000 (maybe other versions do this too)?
Run Solitaire and click both mouse buttons simultaneously on a card for a few seconds as fast as you can.