Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!rutgers!att!pegasus!ech
From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Mah-Jong (sp?) anyone
Message-ID: <2535@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 89 20:21:36 GMT
References: <18761@dhw68k.cts.com>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
Lines: 27

In article <1218@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John R. Delaney) writes:
>My wife has seem an impressive Mah-Jong(?) gave that runs
>on IBM PCs and compatibles. Is there an equivalent program
>for the Mac and who make/distributes it?

From article <18761@dhw68k.cts.com>, by bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger Long):
> I have "Shanghai" which runs on my Mac+ (and sort of runs on my Mac II).
> I hadn't tried it on the II until the other night when I was working on
> the Plus and my wife wanted to play a game and we dug that out.  I would
> be interested to see if Activision has updated it to run on a II in
> color (and took out the #%%^$ copy-protect!).

I updated my "GunShy" program to run on the Mac II in color; it never was
copy-protected.  When I uploaded it to GENie several people sent me sets of
color icons to use with it, including a lovely full-color set with traditional
mah-jongg tiles on it.  Another set (my favorite) was done by some folks
at National Semiconductor.

GunShy continues to run quite nicely on ALL macs (even the 128).  In my
less than humble opinion it has much nicer "pace" than Shanghai.  Also, you
can customize it in a number of ways (replace icons, and the background,
with ResEdit, for example).

I'll post these to comp.binaries.mac if there's interest.  With color icons,
the program may be 100K uncompacted (without, it's more like 50K).

=Ned Horvath=