I wrote Shellitaire because I knew the other games I'm working on will take too long to finish, and I wanted a second game for the website. Screen shot below.
Not counting the drawing code, writing and debugging the game took only a day. The drawing code took four evenings and three mornings, most of which was spent getting the ASCII art right.
While I had to create the small and medium suit icons manually, the large icons for the aces, card backs, and face cards were generated programmatically. Of course, the content still had to be reworked extensively by hand, but the generated content provided a very helpful starting point. Special thanks to http://www.glassgiant.com for providing the ASCII art generation tool.
Enjoy.