
PySol Fan Club Edition - a Python Solitaire Game Collection
Introduction
PySol Fan Club Edition (PySolFC) is a collection of more than 1000 solitaire card games. It is a fork of PySol Solitaire.
There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.
Its features include a modern look and feel (uses the TTk widget set), multiple card sets and tableau backgrounds, sound, unlimited undo, player statistics, a hint system, demo games, a solitaire wizard, support for user written plug-ins, an integrated HTML help browser, and lots of documentation.
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News
22 June, 2020: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.10.0. New in this release:
Fix moving cards in the Scorpion Tail game.
One can optionally load the Freecell Solver and the Black Hole Solver using their DLLs (for better speed).
Some cleanups and refactoring.
5 March, 2020: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.8.0. New in this release:
A new logo thanks to @ghostofiht.
Fix for Freezes (pygame upgrade)
Fixed Three Peaks scoring.
Compatibility with Pillow 6.x - https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/issues/108
Restore the "Save games geometry" feature - https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/issues/84
Added a NEWS.asciidoc file.
Better kivy/Android support
Using ttk and configobj as shipped in the python dist (instead of forked versions)
Requiring attrs and pysol-cards from PyPI
Added tests, bug fixes and refactorings.
Add the -g and --deal command line options.
4 March, 2019: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.6.2.
New in this release:- Fixes for the Windows and macOS packages.
- Forbid illegal moves in Spider and some other variants.
14 February, 2019: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.6.0.
New in this release:23 June, 2018: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.4.0.
New in this release:- The Windows installer now includes the revitalised PySol-music package. For more info, see this bug.
- Many improvements to the test suite and the board import functionality.
- Some bug fixes.
16 April, 2018: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.2.0.
New in this release:- The Microsoft Windows binary installer now contains and supports the solver for Freecell and other games.
- Many bug fixes.
31 March, 2018: There is a new beta release PySolFC v2.1.4.
New in this release:- We now provide a Microsoft Windows binary installer again, thanks to the great work of Roderik Ploszek. Note that the solvers (for FreeCell/etc.) are not installed as part of it yet, but they are available separately.
- pysol-sound-server was updated to support Python 3.x.
- Fixes for the board export / solver input, and for redealing upon restart of the "ms*" deals.
- Various cleanups.
5 March, 2018: There is a new beta source release PySolFC v2.1.3.
New in this release:- Support for the kivy toolkit for running under Android-based devices (currently python 2.7-only)
- Fixed the help system and removed the need for the sgmllib module.
- Other fixes and cleanups.
- Currently there is no Microsoft Windows binary package. Help or insights will be appreciated.
19 November, 2017: There is a new beta source release PySolFC v2.1.0, the first one in almost 8 years.
New in this release:- The code is now compatible with both Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x
- One can deal all MS FreeCell/FC-pro deals by specifying e.g: "ms100000" as the seed.
- Support for Black Hole and All in a Row solver was added.
- Test suite and CI were added to the repository.
- The code now passes flake8 validation.
- Some improvements to the solver dialog.
15 November, 2017: Development of the Python sources has recently resumed using a a GitHub project and other resources and Shlomi Fish (@shlomif) has received an admin status on the SourceForge project and this site. A new source release which adds compatibility with Python version 3.x and some other improvements is expected soon.
04 December, 2009: PySolFC v.2.0 (1061 games) and PySolFC-Cardsets v.2.0 (153 cardsets)
- The license was changed to the GPLv3 or newer.
- 13 new games.
- Migration to new python-ttk module.
- Improved the look of the deck (required python-imaging v.1.1.7).
- Fixed Hanafuda games (ticket).
- New config-file option: sound_sample_buffer_size (ticket).
- Portable version for windows (ticket).
- Many other bugfixes.
06 September, 2007: PySolFC v.1.1 (1048 games)
- 48 new games (one game was removed)
- Solitaire Wizard
- improved Mahjongg games
- human readable config file (options.cfg)
- stack becomes compact when a card goes off screen
- Clearlooks theme for Tile widget set
- a huge number of other improvements
30 August, 2007: PySolFC-Cardsets v.1.1 (152 cardsets)
21 February, 2007: PySolFC v.1.0 (1001 games)