Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Mah Jong Summary: not Mah Johngg, but still fun Message-ID: <43523@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 1 Feb 91 02:12:30 GMT References: <619@newave.UUCP> <1991Jan31.012920.6457@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) Distribution: comp.sys.mac.wanted Lines: 37 In article <1991Jan31.012920.6457@zip.eecs.umich.edu> lagana@sparky.eecs. umich.edu (Antonio A Lagana) writes: >john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes: > >>> Is there a version of this for the Mac? I've looked in all of the >>> usual ftp sites (except simtel) and can't find it. >> >>Look for a commercial game called "Shanghai". It sells for about $25. >>If you like Mah Jong, you will love the implemenation in Shanghai. > >Actually, "Shanghai" is not an implementation of Mah Jong, rather it is a >puzzle game that uses Mah Jong "pies" (Unless there is a new version of >Shanghai that implements the actual game of Mah Jong). To my knowledge, there >is no Mah Jong game for the Macintosh (at least not on this side of the >pacific). On the other hand, "Shanghai" is a very entertaining game that would >be worth checking out. > There's another game that uses the tiles but isn't mah-johngg, and that's Ishido: The Way of Stones. Beautiful graphics! (color required) And the sounds are nice too. The "collector's edition" of this game was reviewed some time ago (a year, maybe?) in MacUser--Accolade markets the mass- market version. I bought Shanghai for my unenlightened brother (he has a 386 DOS machine) for Christmas. I'd like to have it on my Mac IIsi, but calls to mail-order houses revealed that it doesn't come in a color version for the Mac and will probably break on the si anyway. Does anyone know if this is the latest word? --K -- ........................................................................... : Kathy Strong : "Try our Hubble-Rita: just one shot, : : (Clouds moving slowly) : and everything's blurry" : : clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : --El Arroyo : :..........................................................................: