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- From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: In the spirit of Christmas ... Games for Os/2 ... Mahjong ...
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:35:44 GMT
- Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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- No I'm not CAM (lowey@jester.usask.ca) wrote:
- : Chris Waters (xtifr@netcom.com) wrote:
- : : If that's the one I looked at, all it is is some silly solitare game
- : : played with mahjong tiles. It is NOT mahjong!!
- : : I've seen one version of mahjong for DOS, but it was years ago, and I
- : : can't locate it anywhere now, let along mahjong for OS/2.
- : I may not understand what mahjong is. I understood it was tiles stacked up
- : in a specific pattern. You then remove matching tiles from the end of each
- : row on each level, until no tiles are left. I don't know if this is "real"
- : majohng, or the silly solitare game you mention.
- : Anyway, look at FTP.USASK.CA in the following directories for a bunch of games.
- : One is a nice "majongg" game, which looks best in 256 colours.
- : /pub/archives/os2/games
- : /pub/archives/family/games
- : /pub/archives/msdos/games
- : /pub/archives/windows/games
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- Mah Jongg is actually a game very similar to rummy, gin, gin rummy, bridge,
- etc. It is generally played with two players, and is a bit difficult to
- learn. (I've got a version for Nintendo, but it's in Japanese; the *only*
- English on it is when you hit Start (for pause) and a little tea cup appears
- and the screen reads "Tea Time" :-) ).
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- The solitare game with the stacked tiles is *not* Mah Jongg, despite what
- its marketers want you to believe (seems kinda like Windows == Operating
- System war that rages on and on and on... 1/2 :-) ).
- --
- Kenneth L. Beal, Jr. kbeal@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com | Use OS/2 2.0! :-) often.
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