Solidarity game of Windows' super famous game "Solitaire" was made by intern student confirmed by advent

If you are a person who has used Windows, you probably will not know anyone Mini card game "SolitaireMr. Wes Cherry clarified its creation. According to Mr. Cherry, Solitaire is what he made when he worked as a Microsoft intern, and it seems that no royalty by game creation has been paid at all.

TIL that Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern named Wes Cherry. He received no royalties for his work despite it used among the most used Windows applications of all time.: Todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_that_microsoft_solitaire_was_developed_by_a/

Mr. Cherry himself appeared on Reddit's corner "TIL" himself and tells about how he developed solitaire. By the way, "TIL" is the initial style of Today I Learned (I heard such a thing today), a style page that posts what a general user knew on that day.

Mr. Cherry said, "I will reveal a bit of Solitaire's history. Solitaire wrote for Windows 2.1 with my spare time when I was working as an intern for Microsoft in the summer of 1988 I used to play similar games on Mac before, but since I wanted to play with Windows, I made it myself, "and said that Mr. Cherry himself, who is not anyone else, is the creator of Solitaire It is clarifying.

About the program Mr. Cherry said "The code itself is not a big deal .... What is interesting is probably about the optimization we did to make the cards move smoothly.EGAPutting pixels in the buffer was hard. At that time, the object-oriented was novelty and there was no C ++ compiler for Windows, "he says, and I look back on developing Solitaire in a completely different environment.

Mr. Cherry further said, "At the time Microsoft had Bogus software" company within a company "where only servers were placed and several staff hacked Windows to play games It was a place where I am studying APIs that can be used for Windows.When I look at such a situation, Windows manager decided to install games in Windows 3.0 ". Mr. Cherry said the game "Pipe DreamI wrote thousands of dollars in the internship, but I have revealed that nothing was paid for solitaire that I also developed.

ByRobert Jorgenson

In this way, Mr. Cherry who has had an inconvenient background, but after internship has withdrawn from a line of programming, now he is doing apple cider production business in Bashon island, which is close to Seattle, Although I do not seem to be doing much programming, sometimes I use C / C ++ when reworking the control program embedded in the cider machine. "If you come to Basho, please feel free to drop by," Mr. Cherry left a comment on Reddit.

Home - Dragon's Head Cider


Incidentally, the official name of a game generally called "solitaire" is "Klondike"something like. "Solitaire" is a French word meaning "a game to play alone", which became known as a proper noun because it spread as a game of Windows. This might also be one of "TIL (I heard such a thing today)".