Thread: Games that work.

Ok you guys are probably going to think I'm some kind of weirdo but The only games I like are Solitaire and word games. How do I make the classic Windows 7 games work on Windows 8?

I just read that they are not included in the beta as yet but I was wondering if they can be installed somehow.

Originally Posted by stueycaster

Ok you guys are probably going to think I'm some kind of weirdo but The only games I like are Solitaire and word games. How do I make the classic Windows 7 games work on Windows 8?

I just read that they are not included in the beta as yet but I was wondering if they can be installed somehow.

That's Ok. I found a game to play.

Sorry I was looking, but I didn't find a way to get the classic Windows games to run. I guess you could copy the .exes and see if that will work. No garante though.

For more years than I really want to admit to, I've been playing MS's Classic Solitaire. I love that game and sometimes win as many as six in a row. I use it daily to keep my 'Hand--Eye' coordination as acute as possible.
Anyway, when I first tested Vista, I saw that some hacker had revamped good ol' Sol to something out of Star Wars. I was furious and frantic at the same time. But the solution to my problem was really pretty simple......

I grabbed "Sol.exe" and "cards.dll" off of my XP install and transplanted them into the root dir of C: on Vista. (to play the game, you must have both files)
With a shortcut to Sol.exe on my desktop I could play my old classic Solitaire on Vista. Works the same on Win-7. & Win-8.
I found that many of my customers felt the same way I did about Sol, so I wrote a little batch file to load the two Sol files from my Utilities Flash Drive into Vista. Win-7 or Win-8.

What's old is new again.

Originally Posted by NaiyaShamiso

Sorry I was looking, but I didn't find a way to get the classic Windows games to run. I guess you could copy the .exes and see if that will work. No garante though.

Naiya,
I think you'll find that each game has a .dll file to make it work. Sol.exe required 'cards.dll' in the same directory.

Good Luck,

Originally Posted by stueycaster

That's Ok. I found a game to play.

I found a third party Solitaire game.

Alexei Solitaires Collection free Download

I like the Windows 7 version best but this is ok til they put out a version of Windows 8 that includes it. I heard they left it out of the first beta but plan on putting it in a future version.

The thing is I have it in my Windows 7 installation that's in the other partition of my computer. I can't play it out of that directory though. I've run third party apps like that in a dual boot set up before. Oh well, go figure.

Point of order!

There is no Beta of Win-8 as of this date. We're playing around with the Developers Preview version.
Beta is yet to come..... when?, who knows. There are still many things missing that we might expect to be a part of an official Beta and for sure in the final release.
If you're looking for more wallpapers and themes, there is a link on that page where you can download them.
I downloaded the "City Lights" theme. It's quite nice.

But you can still do as I said. Copy sol.exe and cards.dll from your older OS and put them in the root directory of Win-8, then make a shortcut to Sol.exe and put that on your desktop. The game will play just fine. I'm doing it, with the old XP version, so I'm not just guessing here.
I hope that helps.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Just for the record:
Guild Wars
Guild Wars: Factions
Guild Wars: Nightfall
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
All seem to work as expected. I'm mostly playing Factions at the moment, but they are all part of the same client so...