What's New?

Solitaire Till Dawn for Lion is coming!

December 13, 2011

The wait will soon be over! Solitaire Till Dawn is coming for OSX 10.7 Lion!

What about Lion?

August 14, 2011

YES, we know: Apple's new OS X version 10.7, called "Lion", will not support Rosetta. And that means that until we tell you differently, Solitaire Till Dawn will not run under Lion.

We are working on a new version of Solitaire Till Dawn that will be fully modern and compatible with Lion. At this time, we can't predict when it will become available. If you intend to upgrade to Lion soon, you may want to wait to purchase Solitaire Till Dawn.

In the meantime, please keep an eye on this site for news of a new release when it happens, and if you like, drop in on Rick's Café Americain for occasional progress reports. Not everything you read there will be about Solitaire Till Dawn, but there's an inset in the top-right corner that gives recent status of our progress.

And what about iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch?

Yes, we know that everybody wants Solitaire Till Dawn on their mobile devices! We do, too. But that has to come later: our first priority is our many Mac desktop customers who don't want to lose Solitaire Till Dawn when they upgrade to Lion. After that, we'll see about iPads and such.

Version 1.5.1: Leopard & Snow Leopard

October 31, 2007

Version 1.5.1 fixes a small incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). If you already have version 1.5 and you have registered your copy, then you don't need version 1.5.1. If you haven't purchased yet, and you have problems doing so, try version 1.5.1.

Version 1.5.1 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but you must also install Apple's Rosetta module. Rosetta was included in earlier versions of Mac OS X. It is also included in Snow Leopard (you do not need to purchase it), but by default it is not installed. You can install Rosetta as part of your initial Snow Leopard installation, or afterward by trying to open Solitaire Till Dawn X or another non-Intel-native application.

We are working on an Intel-native version which will not require Rosetta, but we cannot yet announce a release date.

Solitaire Till Dawn turns 15

April 24, 2006

Solitaire Till Dawn 1.0 was first released in 1991! That original version had all of nine games, and ran in a mind-boggling 16 colors, if you could afford one of the new, expensive Macintosh II color-capable computers. But if all you had was a Macintosh Plus with a tiny, black-and-white screen, you could still run Solitaire Till Dawn!

Solitaire Till Dawn 1.0 is released!

April 12, 1991

It ran in black and white or 16 colors, on any size Mac monitor then available, and offered nine games. The full version came only by mail-order, but a free demo was available. This was before the World Wide Web (!) so while you could download the demo from the Internet, most people found it on floppy disks created by their local Macintosh User Group.

Here's how it looked on a Mac Plus:

“Sherman, set the Wayback Machine...”

Actually this shot was taken using Mac OS X 10.4 and the Classic Environment. You can tell because the window frame is too modern, although we reduced it to black-and-white to give it that old-timey look.