Chinese Tiles is a single-player game much like memory, you have to match tiles and remove them. You might recognize the tiles from the chinese game Mah-Jongg. Mah-Jongg is an old chinese four-player game consisting of 144 tiles made of wood, bone or plastic decorated with chinese signs and symbols.
There are many shareware versions of this game for various systems.
When you start a new game 144 tiles are randomly placed. The object of the game is to remove the tiles, one matching pair at the time until all tiles are removed.
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••••• SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS •••••
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1) System 7 (or greater)
2) 256 Colours
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••••• REMOVING TILES •••••
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A tile can be removed if :
1) There is not a tile on top of it.
2) There is not a tile either on the left or right(or both) of it.
Ways to remove a pair of tiles:
1) Mark two tiles by clicking on them with the mouse and
press command-R on the keyboard.
2) Mark one tile, and double-click the second.
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••••• TILESET, DESCRIPTION •••••
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There are usually four of each tile, except in the classic tileset.
Classic tileset:
There are four tiles for the seasons(SUM, AUT,WIN, SPR) which match each other and there is ORC, PLUM, MUM and BAM that also match each other.
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••••• CHANGING TILESET •••••
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In the preferences menu you can choose tileset option. It's has got a submenu where you can choose a either a the classic tileset or a custom. Choosing custom brings up a file dialog box where you can choose a tileset.
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••••• CHANGING BACKGROUND •••••
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In the preferences menu you can choose Background option. It's has got a submenu where you can choose a background pattern. If you are familiar with Resedit you can change the current patterns.
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••••• MAKING CUSTOM TILES •••••
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You can make your own tileset using the tile template enclosed. Make a copy of the template. Open the tile template and have a nice time making the tiles.
The game is designed so that the first four tiles (from left top) should be alike as the next four after those. Of all other tiles there should only be one.
The last tile on the last row is used for marking tiles, by choosing an appropriate
colour here it will look better in the game.
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••••• DISCLAIMER •••••
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The game shouldn't make your machine crash but , NO GUARANTIES , use the program at your own risk. The game has not been tested on every existing mac ever made or system configuration. If you run into any problems with this software inform me and I will correct it as soon as possible.
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••••• DISTRUBUTION •••••
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This game may NOT be included in any commercial software collection sold for profit, nor may it be bundled with any commercial software, hardware, books, or other media without prior written consent from me.
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••••• HOW TO REGISTER •••••
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If you like the game send me a $10 (US) in cash to the adress below. You will then
receive the registration code to unlock the game by E-mail or ordinary mail (or FAX).
PLEASE don't send any checks, if you ever have encountered a swedish bank with a check
you would know why.
Snail mail:
Predrag Stanojevic
Trollbackevägen 34
S-393 52 KALMAR
Sweden
E-mail:
predrag.stanojevic@kalmar.trab.se
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••••• VERSION HISTORY •••••
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1.0.0 Initial release
1.0.1 I'm not sure one could call this an program error.
On some computers you have to increase the preferred
memory to 1000k, so I have increased the maximum preferred memory.
