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Mahjonng Solitaire 2.20

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Doug Bissett:

--- Quote from: Conrad Callan on March 23, 2013, 03:59:07 pm ---I would suggest turning off the sound in the actual game itself......am not in front of an OS/2 machine at present but am almost certain the option exists.
I remember doing it for OS/2 Solitaire (in a virtual machine) and the game was a lot more playable because it didn't have to wait for a sound to be played before it turned over every card. Hope this helps.
Conrad.

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Actually, in both Mahjonng, and Klondike Solitaire, turning off the sound doesn't really turn off the sound. The game will still complain if sound support is not there (REM the driver,  reboot, and see what happens), and it will hog the sound card services, unless you have one of the very few drivers that will actually share the device (try loading one of the games while you are playing music). I think the sounds are used to time the game, and all they do is put the frequency high enough that people can't hear it (watch your pets, but it takes really good speakers to get that high of a frequency to actually play).

conradc1234:
OK Now I'll have to set up a virtual machine just to check out what I was talking about! LOL!
Conrad.

conradc1234:
Just thinking....is VirtualBox better than MS's virtual machines or is it vice vearsa? And for that matter, has anyone run a virtual Os/2 machine on a Mac(or even a Hackintosh)?
Thanks again,
Conrad.

Dave Yeo:
IIRC with virtual box it can depend on the version, some work very well, others not so much.  MS's virtual machine used to work quite well.
I've seen people running OS/2 under both virtual box and parallels on OSX

conradc1234:
Thanks Dave - I'll try a few installations over the next week or so and see what comes up trumps!
Conrad.

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