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22. Are there any shareware mahjong games for the Mac?


Sort of.  Shanghai II and its shareware clone Gunshy are excellent games, but
they are not actually mahjong, although Shanghai does use mahjong tiles.
Rumor has it that there is a commercial version of japanese mahjong that
is only available in Japan.

There is a freeware Japanese-rules mahjong program called "Macjong 0.20a",
but it is reputedly buggy and incomplete.  It is available at umich in
<ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/game/card/>.

There is also a shareware mahjong game under development that uses Chinese
rules.  It is reportedly pretty good and at least as stable as Macjong.
It's available at 
<ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/mac/games/board/>.

More information about traditional mahjong is available at Jonathan's Mah 
Jong Page at <http://www.atdesk.com/jon/mahjong.html> and the Mah Jongg Home 
Page at <http://www.cs.utk.edu/~clay/mahjongg/>.



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