Hearts (Microsoft, Windows, 1993)

Hearts
Developer: Microsoft Publisher: Microsoft Platform: Windows Released in US: August 11, 1993 This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

Another of the Microsoft card games, and the first one with multiplayer support. Still, it didn't quite gain the popularity of its sister games.

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Prototype Info

Debug Mode

This game has a debug mode, but it's a bit harder to enable here because it requires editing the Windows registry.

Open a registry editor and go to key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Hearts (create any sub-keys that don't exist). Add a REG_SZ named ZB and set its value to 42 (in Windows for Workgroups 3.11, add "ZB=42" to the [Hearts] section of win.ini).

After having done this, start the game and you'll be able to use the keyboard combination Ctrl + Shift + Alt + F12 to see the cards of your competitors. This was probably used to test the game engine and possibly also the AI.

Version Differences

The Windows XP version changes the icon (although the old icon remains as a low color depth fallback) and removes networking support.

Windows for Workgroups 3.11/9x/NT/2000/ME	Windows XP

Windows for Workgroups 3.11/9x/NT/2000/ME	Windows XP

Regional Differences

Opponent Names

The AI opponents have different names in each language.

Language	Opponent (West)	Opponent (North)	Opponent (East)
English	Pauline	Michele	Ben
Dutch	Johan	Annelies	Wouter
Finnish	Anne	Keijo	Juuso
French	Jean-Pierre	Bruno	Michel
German	Jutta	Michael	Matthias
Hungarian	Levente	Miki	Viktor
Italian	Giovanna	Davide	Roberto
Japanese	かおる Kaoru	かなこ Kanako	ひさこ Hisako
Korean	진수 Jinsu	영미 Yeongmi	정훈 Jeonghun
Polish	Bartek	Michał	Marcin
Spanish	Manuel	Ana	Jesús
Turkish	Can	Mehmet	Gamze

Quote

The quote in the Help menu is different in some languages.

Language	Quote	Translation	Explanation
English	I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts... -Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene ii		Quote from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Later translated and reused in the Dutch, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish versions of the game.
Finnish	Kortit parhaat riviin pöydälleen saada tahtoo meistä jokainen... - Heikki Salo: "Pataässä"	The cards are best lined up on their table to get the wants of each of us... - Heikki Salo: "Ace of Spades"	Quote from "Pataässä", a song by Heikki Salo.
French	À vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire... - Corneille, Le Cid	To vanquish without peril, one triumphs without glory... - Corneille, Le Cid	Quote from Le Cid, a play by Pierre Corneille.
Hungarian	Óvakodj a Fekete Macskától ! ***	Beware of the Black Cat ! ***	Possibly a reference to black cats being considered bad luck.
Italian	Al cuor non si comanda.	You can't command the heart.	Italian proverb equivalent to "love is blind".