MS have done really bad things in past...this is the worst!

[BladeRunner 0]

I sit here day after day trying my best to defend Microsoft as a company.

When this whole lawsuit first came out I defended MS, I felt that the whole thing was pointless and stupid.

I have lived through the Win9x line of products crashing on me at every turn.

I have lived through 'WinNT' and it's quirks, but MS have done it this time.

Oooooo I'm so close to leaving them forever and looking elsewhere for an OS.

How dare they release an incomplete OS in the guise of Win2000!!

I talk about of course........Hearts

 

OK guys, on a serious note, why no Hearts under Win2000, and is there any way of getting my beloved Hearts back with full network support?

 

Cheers.

[peterro 0]

I'm not even gonna answer that about MS (it would take to long...), but about Hearts, simply take a Win9x machine and serch for "mshearts.*" I know there is a .exe file, don't remember if it is anotherone. Just copy them to your 2k machine, and it should work.

 

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[Flitzman 0]

it wont work cause mshearts.exe is a 16-bit application and shouldnt work on NT.

[AdslBoy 0]

Quote:

Originally posted by Flitzman:
it wont work cause mshearts.exe is a 16-bit application and shouldnt work on NT.

Wrong. 16 bit apps can still work on NT.

[Flitzman 0]

ok, my mistake. i have tried this before on a winNT 4.0 machine, and there it says it cant do it cause: 'Can't run 16-bit Windows program, this application is not supported by Microsoft Windows NT'

Now i had to try it in win2k as well of course, and now it won't give me that error, but it says it can't find cards.dll. I did a search for the file and found there was a cards.dll in the windows\system32 directory.

well anyway, it doesnt work for me, if anyone knows how to do it... let us know.

Cause indeed, windows is incomplete without Hearts

 

regards,

 

Flitz

[BladeRunner 0]

Hi,

OK I've copied both mshearts.exe & cards.dll into my c:\winnt directory.

Mshearts runs!!! woohoooo

But no network support, the 'host game' & 'connect to game' options are greyed out.

Yes this machine has got NetBEUI installed.

SO I got the game back, but no beating the rest of the IT team

 

Paul

[AdslBoy 0]

This app needs some registry settings or win.ini/system.ini settings for the game to fully work. It communicates through something called DDE (some of you Windoze types would know what this is).

 

So unless it is properly installed network play is no go.

[Greybear 0]

I think you can find Hearts for BeOS 5.0

You could duel-boot into Win2k, and hit BeOS for your Hearts fix. It boots in 15 seconds. In and out before the boss walks by. <grin>

 

[This message has been edited by Greybear (edited 16 May 2000).]

[FrogMaster 0]

Play it under Mac OSxx

[BladeRunner 0]

Only one thing for it.

Gonna post a 'bug report' to Microsoft telling them that my Win2000 version of Hearts doesn't seem to work and my icon appears to be missing from the Start bar.

[mobile 0]

LINUX

[felix 0]

On a forum titled NTCompatible, your first post is one word - "Linux".

 

Piss Off back to redhat.com

 

Idiot.

 

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[mobile 0]

Now what makes you think that I was having a go at NT, I am actually running W2K, but have a linux machine as well, I suppose I was just refering to the fact that Linux doen't have Hearts either.

[CYBERMAN 0]

WELL SAID

GOOD THING WE ARE NOT ALL ONE EYED..

[Vicman 0]

http://softseek.com/Games/Card_and_Casino/Hearts/Review_30299_index.html

 

I know it's not MS Hearts.. but it's Hearts! It's multiplayer over LAN, AND it works in 2000!

 

Shareware tho, dunno what it costs if you keep it.

 

Theres more here, http://softseek.com/Games/Card_and_Casino/Hearts but that one looked like the one that'd be what ya want.

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by Vicman (edited 19 May 2000).]