Apple’s .Mac service periodically offers members access to free downloads of commercial software, including games. The service’s most recent promotion is the release of Super GameHouse Solitaire Special Edition.
Super GameHouse Solitaire, developed by the creators of Super Collapse II, Super Pop and Drop and other games for Mac OS X, is a collection of six solitaire card games for Mac OS X 10.0 or higher, each with three levels of difficulty. The games including Golf, Turbo Solitaire, Klondike, Pyramid, Crescent and Addiction Solitaire, and they’re yours for free if you have a .Mac account.
.Mac is Apple’s subscription-based service that provides users with a Mac.com e-mail account, Web page creation and management capabilities, online storage facilities, support for using iSync to synchronize data between computers, and more.
In addition to Super GameHouse Solitaire Special Edition, .Mac is providing users with a US$5 discount on Super Mah Jong Solitaire, GameHouse’s variation on the Chinese tile-matching game. You must match tiles in pairs until all tiles are eliminated. The game features 20 layouts, four music tracks, three tile layouts and more.