MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: windows 8 preview and media player

> I am using Windows 7 64-bit. I've never had any problems (that I know of) with WMP or
> Freecell. I don't play Spider Solitaire much, but have never had a problem. Maybe I'm
> not trying to do something like others are doing or something.

Just play the crap out of Spider, and eventually you'll come to a stack of cards which will blatantly refuse to drag to another stack, and will not highlight when the mouse goes over it (e.g. attempting to move a stack of 9-3 cards onto a 10 in another row could become impossible, because the CPU won't let you drag past the 5 card despite being a legal move - the keyboard has to be used instead to manually select the cards).

Freecell doesn't seem to have any real bugs aside from a memory leak, which is noticeable after a number of games (I don't know what causes it, whether it's the undo feature, playing/winning a lot of games in a row, losing and restarting etc). My biggest gripe with the newer Freecell is the fact it still only randomly selects the base 32000 games from the original, despite having 1 million card combinations (which the 'old' XP version also had, same random select limitation of 32000 as well). Since giving up on the MS versions, I went to FCPro, which is an enhanced version with lots of options and does away with the limitations (although it is based on the original version, but you can actually specify the card size and maximize it unlike the original). There is also a hacked version of 'Vista' Freecell (and Spider/Hearts/Solitaire etc) which works on Windows XP, and this also exhibits the exact same bugs.