Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!psivax!rabbit
From: rabbit@psivax.UUCP (Joe Kwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: mahjongg tiles
Message-ID: <2256@psivax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 22:10:36 GMT
References: <319@opus.analogy.UUCP> <6328@well.UUCP> <579@cvedc.UUCP> <1321@csun.UUCP>
Reply-To: rabbit@psivax.UUCP (Joe Kwan)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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In article <1321@csun.UUCP> mst@mx.UUCP (Michael Temkin) writes:
)>> It does play the game which is
)>> sold by Activision under the name "Shanghai".  To the best of
)>> my knowledge, this game is original to Activision, although
)>> they have apparently done nothing to protect the game
)>> from duplication.
)
)A friend of mine played a similar game on the Plato system (CMU system
)I believe) about 4 years ago.  I don't recall the name, but the board
)was set up the same as the Activision game.  It was played using a 
)CDC-721 touch screen terminal.


I played this version on the CSU (California State University) PLATO
(Control Data Corporation) system a few years ago.  It was also called
"mahjongg" on that system and played in the same way.  As I remember,
a few months after I played that, the Macintosh "Shanghai" game came
out which seemed to play the same turtle solitary mahjongg game.