PySolFC/README.md

PySol Fan Club edition

This is a collection of Card Solitaire/Patience games written in Python. See http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ .

This is a maintenace branch of PySol FC by Shlomi Fish and by some other people, aiming to clean up the code, add features, fix bugs, port to Python 3, etc.

Requirements.

• Python (2.4 or later) (NB: python 2.6.0 has a bug, use 2.6.1 instead)

• Tkinter (Tcl/Tk 8.4 or later)

• For sound support (optional)

  • PySol-Sound-Server: http://www.pysol.org/ (mp3, wav, tracker music) or
  • PyGame: http://www.pygame.org/ (mp3, ogg, wav, midi, tracker music)

• Other packages (optional):

  • Tile (ttk): http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ (0.8.0 or later)
  • PIL (Python Imaging Library): http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
  • Freecell Solver: http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ .

Installation.

See: http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/

or just run from the source directory:

$ python pysol.py

** Freecell Solver ** If you want to use the Solver, you should configure freecell-solver ( http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ ) by passing the following options to its CMake-based build-system: -DMAX_NUM_FREECELLS=8 -DMAX_NUM_STACKS=20 -DMAX_NUM_INITIAL_CARDS_IN_A_STACK=60 (or edit config.h)

Install Extras.

• Music

• Copy some music files (mp3 for example) to ~/.PySolFC/music/

• Original PySol music can be download from: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/solitaires/pysol-music-4.40.tar.gz

• Cardsets

• Copy cardsets to ~/.PySolFC/cardsets

• Additional cardsets can be downloaded from the PySolFC project page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=150718