Mahjongg for the Newton, Version 1.5d Instructions: The goal of the game is to remove all of the tiles. You can only remove tiles that match each other - both number and design. In addition the plant/flower tiles and the season tiles all match each other. To remove a pair of tiles, tap on them. If they match, they will disappear, else the newton will ping at you. Here's the trick: you can only tap on tiles that you can slide out to the left or right, and that are not underneath another. Think about the real game, (played with physical tiles) you have to be able to remove the piece without disturbing any others. That's it. In some ways, it's more of a soothing (?) exercise in meditation than a game. On the right side of the screen are a heap of buttons: UNDO: undoes the last move. You can tap on this repeatedly to undo moves right up to a new board. Note that it has to redraw the whole screen, so it can be sluggish. HELP: highlights all available matching tiles. This is a big ol' cheat key, but I'm not good at the game, so I put it in. Note that you will have to tap on it AGAIN to continue playing. If you already have a tile selected, hitting the help button will blink matching tiles. SAME: replay the same board. NEW: play a new board. Not a whole lot else: There is a tile counter to tell you how close you are to being done on the bottom right of the screen. The info button has an overview of the instructions as well as my mailing address. In addition, there is a Minimize feature which allows you to "pause" a game. Speaking of that: This is SHAREWARE. More importantly, it is my *first* piece of shareware. If this gets a decent response, stuff I put out in the future may also be shareware. If not, it will be crippleware. You can either mail a cheque to the address below (or cash!), or use Kagi to register the software. If you want to use Kagi, you'll have to install the Register program included in this archive, or use a web browser to get to How much should you pay? Depends how much you use it and enjoy it. We suggest about $10. If you're a real diehard Mahjongg junkie, then send more (say $20)! If you think it sucks, then you won't send anything anyhow. If you like it, but don't think it's worth $10, then send less. We'll think you're cheap, but what do you care. Here's the address: Sanjay Vakil 86 Norfolk St., Apt 4 Cambridge, MA 02139 Personal Tiles: I know that there will be people out there who want their own tile designs. I can't spend time converting stuff back and forth until it work, so I will only considering creating a custom tile set for you if you send me the information in EXACTLY the right form: Send me a file called "tiles.r", which is a Mac Resource file with the following elements: resources named "tile1" - "tile42" (all of the tiles) the last 4 *must* be the seasons, the 4 before that *must* be the flowers. resources named "num0" -> "num9" (all of the number tiles) The tiles are 30X20 pixels, and need to have a border. The number tiles are 20X20 pixels and need to have a border. Also, if the file is not correct, I'll not fix it. I don't have time. Don't ask me about how to do this, what a resource is or anything else: I'm not a Mac Guru and don't want to become one (I'm a unix weenie :). I will charge $10 for this service. I can't afford to do it for free, sorry. If you make a cool set of tiles, I may also bother you to let me distribute them. You'd then have fame, though no additional fortune. Legal yadda yadda: This Mahjongg for the Newton (v1.5) is copyright 1996 by Brenda Carpenter and Sanjay Vakil. You are allowed to make copies at will, and upload it to wherever you like, but you must include this file, unmodified with it. If you wish to distribute it via a medium that requires payment (eg. CDROM Newton archive), you must contact me (Sanjay Vakil) at the address above and send me a copy of the distribution. We're not to be held responsible for Mahjongg mucking up the data on your newton, or for hours lost to Mahjongg when you could have been doing something more productive. Acknowledgements: I'd like to thank George Madrid for all the development help, Ben Gottlieb for help with the scroller (and for being my only offsite beta tester :), and Sally for putting up with me. The tiles patterns are based on those created by Mark Holms. Mahjongg Revision History 1.5d Fixed bug that prevented minimization 1.5c Public Release 1.5b Public Beta Release -added minimization capability -added confirmation dialogs to the NEW and SAME buttons -added additional HELP mode -if a tile is tapped, hitting HELP flashes all matches -added close button to the info screens -fixed [i] button sibling bug -fixed bug with playing a new game not clearing UNDO queue 1.0 Initial release