A Shareware Life

Our 2nd iPad App - Goodsol FreeCell Plus

Our 2nd iPad app is now available.

Goodsol FreeCell Plus is FreeCell plus more - it contains the classic game FreeCell, the popular game Sea Towers, Eight Off, Penguin, and Spidercells - a total of 12 FreeCell type games (it contains the same games as the Windows and Mac versions of FreeCell Plus).

Game numbers are compatible with our Mac/Windows games and the classic Windows FreeCell.

For iPad. $1.99.

Download on the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodsol-freecell-plus/id625986922?ls=1&mt=8

Or go to the App Store and search for "goodsol". See also our first iPad game, A Little Solitaire.

If you buy, please rate and review!

We are working on 3 more iPad apps with many more games, they will be available very soon. For updates on their status, see http://www.goodsol.com/ipad .

The Windows and Mac versions of FreeCell Plus are available at http://www.goodsol.com/freeplus .

Enjoy!

 

New Pretty Good Solitaire v13.6 (Windows)

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire is now available. 

Version 13.6 can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/download.html 

Version 13.6 adds 3 new games for a total of 798 games. 

The new games are Candike, Single Spark, and Lancaster.

Version 13.6 is a free upgrade for users who originally ordered version 12 or 13 (ordered since October 25, 2007) or have paid for an upgrade since that time. It is not a free upgrade for users who originally ordered version 11 or below. Users of older versions can upgrade for $11.95 athttp://www.goodsol.com/upgrade.html 

New Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition v2.42

A new version 2.42 of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition has just been released!

The trial version can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/mac/download.html
Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition includes 420 games - see http://www.goodsol.com/mac for full details.

This update includes adds 20 new games, bringing the total to 420. The new games are Acme, Block Ten, Cadran, Capricieuse, Demon, Double Easthaven, Double Golf, Double Trigon, Harp Rush, Huge Spider, Kingdom, Nine by Five, Open Doublets, Opus, Quadruple Trigon, Richard's Patience, Right and Left, Seven by Four, Six by Four, and Trigon Left.



This is a free update for all registered users - if you have the full version installed, just start the game, go to the Internet menu, select "Download Latest Version". You will then be able to download the full version.

New Pretty Good Solitaire v13.5 (Windows)

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire is now available. 

Version 13.5 can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/download.html 

Version 13.5 adds 3 new games for a total of 795 games. 

The new games are Double Golf, Harp Rush, and Open Doublets.

 

Download Pretty Good Solitaire v13.5 Now

New Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition v2.40

A new version 2.40 of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition has just been released!

The trial version can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/mac/download.html
Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition includes 400 games - see http://www.goodsol.com/mac for full details.

This update includes adds 25 new games, bringing the total to 400. The new games are Admiral's Patience, Arabella, Aragonese Patience, Athena, Barney's Spider, Big Harp, Book Scorpion, Carre Napoleon, Ceiling Fan, Demonthief, Double Jane, Downing Street, Eight by Five, Klondike Mini, La Nivernaise, Mount Logan, Old Carlton, Open Peek, Open Peek Cell, Quizzie, Rows of Four, Sticko, Succession, Undercover Aces Easy, and Whistler.

This is a free update for all registered users - if you have the full version installed, just start the game, go to the Internet menu, select "Download Latest Version". You will then be able to download the full version.

The 25 new games in version 2.40 - including 5 new bonus games in the full version.

Pretty Good Solitaire v13.4 (Windows)

A new version 13.4 of Pretty Good Solitaire is now available.  Version 13.4 can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/download.html 

Version 13.4 contains 2 new games, bringing the total number of games to 792.

 

The new games are

Admiral's Patience

and

Downing Street.

Download Pretty Good Solitaire 13.4 Now

With this version we are switching to a new release schedule - approximately every month there will be a new version. There will be fewer new games in each version of course, but regular new games and fixes each month.

 

 

New Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition v2.38

A new version 2.38 of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition has just been released!

Download the trial version from http://www.goodsol.com/mac/download.html
Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition includes 375 games - see http://www.goodsol.com/mac for full details.

This update includes adds 25 new games, bringing the total to 375. The new games are Brigade, British Constitution, Cast Out Nines, Deuces and Queens, Dial, Diavolo, Easy Diavolo, Emperor Penguin, Fifteens, Forty-Nine, Four Leaf Clovers, Free Fan Hard, Hidden Treasures, Letter H, Milligan Harp, Octave, Pharaohs, Puss in the Corner, Reserved Pyramid, Rueil, Scorpion Head, Shady Lanes, Shifting, Tens Out, and Undercover Aces.

This is a free update for all registered users - if you have the full version installed, just start the game, go to the Internet menu, select "Download Latest Version". You will then be able to download the full version.

Thee 25 new games in version 2.38 (along with 5 new bonus games).

 

New FreeCell Plus v4.10 Windows and Mac

New FreeCell Plus versions are released!

Version 4.10 of FreeCell Plus for Windows can be downloaded fromhttp://www.goodsol.com/freeplus/download.html
This update includes bug fixes and Windows 8 compatibility. This is a free update for all registered users - just download the trial version and use your registration code to make it the full version (it will find your code automatically if you have the full version installed already).

Version 4.10 of FreeCell Plus for Mac OS X is released. This update includes bug fixes, Mountain Lion compatibility and support for Apple's new Gatekeeper security feature. The trial version can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/freeplus/download.html . This is a free update for all registered users - to update your full version, just run the game, go to the Internet menu, and select "Download Latest Version".

 

Pretty Good MahJongg Mac Edition

Pretty Good MahJongg Mac Edition is now available!

The Mac version of our popular MahJongg game is now available. Version 1.00 features 160 tile matching layouts and 32 different mahjongg solitaire games.

More info - http://www.goodmj.com/mac
Download - http://www.goodmj.com/mac/download.html
Order - http://www.goodmj.com/mac/orderonline.html
Download Tile Sets - http://www.goodmj.com/mac/tilesets.html

Registered users of the Windows Pretty Good MahJongg can get a coupon worth 50% off the Mac version at http://www.goodmj.com/mac/coupon.html

FreeCell Plus

We have released a new version 4.0 of our game FreeCell Plus.  FreeCell Plus is a collection of 8 FreeCell type solitaire games.

What makes this release interesting is that version 3.0 was released in 1998.  Yes, it has been 12 years since we have updated this product.

Why the long gap?

I have discussed FreeCell Plus on this blog before in 2005 in Indie Game Case Study: The Story of a Modestly Successful Game.

In short, FreeCell Plus was the first game I developed after Pretty Good Solitaire.  I wrote it in December 1995 and released version 1.0 on January 25, 1996.  It was made completely from Pretty Good Solitaire code and was meant to be a smaller collection of solitaire games targeted at people who just like FreeCell type games and don't want anything else.  It was written as a 16 bit application for Windows 3.1, although of course it ran on Windows 95 and NT (which were the only 32 bit Windows at the time).

As I explained in the 2005 post, FreeCell Plus filled a specific market need for a Windows 3.1 FreeCell game.  I updated it with versions 2.0 in 1997 and 3.0 in 1998, but by this time Windows 3.1 was dying out.  In 1998 I released a new 32 bit product called FreeCell Wizard, which basically replaced FreeCell Plus.

And that's how things stood for 12 years.  FreeCell Plus continued to sell a few copies, because some people kept searching for "windows 3.1 freecell".  But of course the numbers kept dwindling over the years.  The game ran on Windows ME and XP, but when Windows Vista came along, as a 16 bit application it would no longer run (at least on the 64 bit OS).

At this point, it made sense to just retire the game.  But on the other hand, over the past couple of years we have been developing our new cross-platform solitaire engine, which makes products that run both on Windows and Mac OS X (the games Most Popular Solitaire, Goodsol Solitaire 101, and Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition are based on this engine).  Why not just make a new version of FreeCell Plus with this new engine?

And so FreeCell Plus version 4.0 was born on January 25, 2010, exactly 14 years after version 1.0.  It runs not only on Windows Vista and 7, but also on Mac OS X.  Users who buy it get both versions.  Also, since FreeCell Wizard is Windows only and we won't be making a Mac version of it for awhile, we are giving the Mac version of FreeCell Plus away free to FreeCell Wizard users.

We now have 4 products for Mac OS X: the $9.95 FreeCell Plus, the $16.95 Most Popular Solitaire with 30 games, the $19.95 Goodsol Solitaire 101 with 101 games, and the $24.95 Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition with 200 games (updating to 300 in a few months).