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Alans Solitaire 1.0.6

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Alan's Solitaire is a no-frills solitaire card game for the classic Macintosh, written by Alan Ewalt and submitted to the Info-Mac Archive in version 1.0.6. The author's pitch is straightforward: a simple solitaire with minimal system requirements, suitable for older Macs that struggle with the more elaborate commercial card collections of the era.Classic Solitaire on the MacThe package follows the long Info-Mac tradition of single-author card games filed under game/crd. It targets the standard solitaire experience rather than introducing exotic variants, with a focus on playability on modest hardware.Lightweight by DesignEwalt explicitly emphasizes minimal system requirements, which made Alan's Solitaire a comfortable fit on lower-end 68k Macs and small-RAM PowerPC machines where heavier titles felt sluggish.Author and LineageThe Info-Mac submission is signed by Alan Ewalt from an apple.com address, and Macintosh Garden lists the game under Ewalt Enterprises as both 68k and PPC builds covering System 7.0 through Mac OS 9.DistributionAlan's Solitaire 1.0.6 was uploaded to Info-Mac under game/crd, with earlier 1.03 builds also archived. Macintosh Garden mirrors the title and dates the entry to 1997.

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