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[Sluggo]

Hello. My mother just made the switch but she misses the packaged games that Windows had. We've searched the internet and these fora, but we keep running into free trials and not free games. Do you know where she could download some free staple puzzle games? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Edit: Yeah, she wants solitaire, freecell, minesweeper, and tetris. Thanks!

[Janichsan]

Hm, define "staple puzzle games".

Since you are talking about games packaged with Windows, I assume you mean something like solitair, right? I recommend this one.

[AlanH]

Sluggo, on July 22nd 2006, 08:16 AM, said:

Hello. My mother just made the switch but she misses the packaged games that Windows had. We've searched the internet and these fora, but we keep running into free trials and not free games. Do you know where she could download some free staple puzzle games? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Edit: Yeah, she wants solitaire, freecell, minesweeper, and tetris. Thanks!

Search VersionTracker. There are plenty of free versions of all of the above and more.

[Blackshawk]

www.versiontracker.com

Every rookie programmer makes a puzzle clone and vainly thinks he can sell it. Fortunately, there are some more experienced heads who make the games for free.

[pumilamac]

You might want to see if you can still find Quinn somewhere. It's the best Tetris for Mac out there but has been taken off it's home site because of legal issues.

[Tuncer (IMG)]

What's with all these VersionTracker links? Hello...if you're looking for just games, head over to:

http://www.macgamefiles.com

[AlanH]

Tuncer (IMG), on July 23rd 2006, 03:22 PM, said:

What's with all these VersionTracker links? Hello...if you're looking for just games, head over to:

http://www.macgamefiles.com

I apologise. However, plug 'FreeCell' into the search box on the IMG home page, do the same on VersionTracker, compare and contrast the results.

[the Battle Cat]

If I remember right, VersionTracker's game files are on the macgamefiles.com server.

[Quicksilver]

pumilamac, on July 23rd 2006, 09:19 AM, said:

You might want to see if you can still find Quinn somewhere. It's the best Tetris for Mac out there but has been taken off it's home site because of legal issues.

Quinn is definitely the best Tetris game for the Mac (and it's UB).  You can get it from Versiontracker here.

[Janichsan]

Quicksilver, on July 24th 2006, 01:52 AM, said:

Quinn is definitely the best Tetris game for the Mac (and it's UB).  You can get it from Versiontracker here.

No, you can't.

[tiskippy]

[quote name='AlanH' post='275394' date='July 23rd 2006, 10:44 AM']
I apologise. However, plug 'FreeCell' into the search box on the IMG home page, do the same on VersionTracker, compare and contrast the results.
[/quote]

Search on MacGameFiles, not IMG.  There's plenty of results on both searches.  Though I agree, use MGF for games...

[quote] name='the Battle Cat' date='July 23rd 2006, 02:48 AM']
If I remember right, VersionTracker's game files are on the macgamefiles.com server.
[/quote]

Yeah, VersionTracker doesn't actually host any files, they simply link to various other hosts.  In the case of games, that is often MGF.

[Quicksilver]

Janichsan, on July 23rd 2006, 07:53 PM, said:

No, you can't.

You're semi-right.  It's still available from most sites though, including this site.

[pumilamac]

Quicksilver, on July 23rd 2006, 06:30 PM, said:

You're semi-right.  It's still available from most sites though, including this site.

If you can you want to find the newest version which is 3.3.3 and has the chat bug fixed.

I haven't linked to anyone but frankly I use VersionTracker and MacUpdate because they offer all software updates, rather than have to go to an additional site that only has games.

[AlanH]

tiskippy, on July 24th 2006, 02:03 AM, said:

Search on MacGameFiles, not IMG.  There's plenty of results on both searches.  Though I agree, use MGF for games...

OK, you've demonstrated that someone who posts on IMG can fail to recognise the other bits and pieces of associated web magic. So I repeated my test, and put Freecell into MGF search box. I see a list of Shareware products. But the OP asked about Free software. If I do the same search on VersionTracker I see a (longer) list with two Freeware products at the top. Note that those two products are also in the MGF list as shareware.

[bobbob]

Quicksilver, on July 23rd 2006, 06:30 PM, said:

You're semi-right.  It's still available from most sites though, including this site.

Damn dirty pirate.

[Quicksilver]

bobbob, on July 24th 2006, 06:39 PM, said:

Damn dirty pirate.

Hardly.  Just because a company threatens legal action doesn't mean that they're right.  There are many cases when company trademarks become regular parts of the English language (like Xerox).

[Rev-O]

pumilamac, on July 23rd 2006, 08:53 PM, said:

If you can you want to find the newest version which is 3.3.3 and has the chat bug fixed.

I haven't linked to anyone but frankly I use VersionTracker and MacUpdate because they offer all software updates, rather than have to go to an additional site that only has games.

The link is for 3.3.3

[pumilamac]

Rev-O, on July 24th 2006, 07:02 PM, said:

The link is for 3.3.3

Looks like Softpedia needs to update their webpage.

[the Battle Cat]

What's the deal with Softpedia?  Is that like another underdogs?