Minimum requirements for games included with Windows (FreeCell, Hearts, Spider Solitaire, 3D Pinball, etc) \ VOGONS

Minimum requirements for games included with Windows (FreeCell, Hearts, Spider Solitaire, 3D Pinball, etc)

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First post, by auntyellow

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I've been experimenting with the games included with Windows and found that many of them can actually run on much older OSes and lower-spec hardware than you'd think.

Here are some interesting results from my testing, along with online playable links:

FreeCell: Windows 3.0 Real Mode
Hearts: Windows 3.1 Standard Mode
Spider Solitaire: Windows 95 with only 4MB RAM
3D Pinball: Windows 3.1 386 Enhanced Mode with 8MB RAM
Fury3: Windows 3.1 enhanced mode with 16MB RAM (running via js-dos with the DOSBox-X engine)

(Note: I didn't include Reversi, Solitaire, or Minesweeper since they are already widely available in standard Windows 3.0/3.1 web emulators.)

Curious to hear if anyone else has managed to push these games onto even lower specs or weirder setups! Enjoy!

Reply 1 of 4, by jakethompson1

Posted on Today, 03:17

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It makes sense as these often came from somewhere else originally. FreeCell is from one of the Windows Entertainment Packs, and 3D Pinball is Microsoft's adaptation of Full Tilt! Pinball.

Reply 2 of 4, by zapbuzz

Posted on Today, 03:26

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3D pinball had a few cosmetic changes over the years pity the unofficial 64bit port is not accurate.

Reply 3 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on Today, 06:11

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Fury3 supported Win32s and doesn't need 16mb. I've played it on WFW back a 1995 ago on a 8mb 486

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Reply 4 of 4, by auntyellow

Posted on Today, 15:08

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jakethompson1 wrote on Today, 03:17:

It makes sense as these often came from somewhere else originally. FreeCell is from one of the Windows Entertainment Packs, and 3D Pinball is Microsoft's adaptation of Full Tilt! Pinball.

I had always thought FreeCell was firstly introduced in Win32s, until I found it in Windows Entertainment Packs.

leileilol wrote on Today, 06:11:

Fury3 supported Win32s and doesn't need 16mb. I've played it on WFW back a 1995 ago on a 8mb 486

Sorry I've forgot to increase swap file (originally 0.5M). Here's the update:

3D Pinball: Windows 3.1 386 Enhanced Mode with 2MB RAM + 8MB Swap File
Fury3: Windows 3.1 386 Enhanced Mode with 4MB RAM + 16MB Swap File (running via js-dos with the DOSBox-X engine)

Performance doesn't seem to drop.

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