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From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wanted:Mahjongg
Message-ID: <687@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 18 Jan 89 11:39:08 GMT
References: <102760004@hpcvlx.HP.COM> <102760006@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown)
Organization: Me?  Organized?
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In article <102760006@hpcvlx.HP.COM> everett@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Everett Kaser) writes:
>The four-player version of Mahjongg that I saw (a friend had), is apparently
>a comercial, copyrighted program.  It runs in CGA mode, and the title screen
>says:
>                     IBM-PC MAHJONG
>                       Version 2.0
>              Copyright 1986 By Peter E. King
>                Produced by Procon Software

It's shareware.  I think he wants $20 US for it.  It's worth it.

It doesn't run on all machines, though - if you look carefully at the
colors it uses and at a CGA manual, you find that the color combination
is impossible.  It doesn't work on a friend's EGA.  I have no idea how
he gets that color combo - I can't see any way to command the chip to do it.

It will run fine in B/W on the EGA, though.  (I prefer the B/W mode anyway.)

So (as with all shareware), if you have the complete package don't feel bad
about distributing it.