TinySol: A 3KB Klondike Solitaire for Vintage DOS PCs
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
TinySol is a free, tiny Klondike Solitaire game for DOS, designed to run on vintage computers with monochrome screens. It fits in just 3KB, runs on any PC from 8086 up, and supports CGA, AT&T 6300, EGA, and VGA graphics. The game includes keyboard and mouse controls, save/restore, auto-finish, and scoring. It has been tested on real hardware including an IBM 5150 and a GRiDCase 1520, and in emulators. Written in x86 assembly, it aims to look sharp on gas-plasma displays while being small enough for ROMs.
A user, Joseph, running version 1.1 emailed saying, “You have no idea how hard I have been looking for a DOS Klondike game that works with just the keyboard and draws 3 cards at a time.”
- bananaboy
Hey very nice! I made a 386+VGA Solitaire game a while back for a game jam https://horsedrawngames.itch.io/solitaire I always meant to go back and optimise it more because it shouldn’t require a Pentium!
- omoikane
Related, Oscar Toledo also made a tiny Klondike Solitaire program for IOCCC, I wonder if it was inspired by this one:
https://nanochess.org/klondike_in_c.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450024 - Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C (2026-06-08, 17 comments)
- ctippett
Late (late.sh) has solitaire available to play over SSH (along with minesweeper, tetris, battleships, chess... and many more). You'd be surprised at how well a lot of games translate just fine to being rendered on a simple interface.