For anyone who might be interested: The 1-to-4 player network mahjong game version 1.6pre1 is now out. Its URL is:
http://www.stevens-bradfield.com/MahJong/ The latest release version is 1.5.6. The nice things about network mahjong are: 1. anywhere from 1 to 4 players can play, and you do not have to be in the same place. 2. You do not have to lose anything and still enjoy the game. In the "real" mahjong game, you can lose all your money, your house and lot, and your wife and children. 3. If you are winning, you do not fear for your life, that is, you are not afraid that your losing opponents will shoot you in the head, as has happened in real games. 4. Mah jong is just as enjoyable and as addicting as other multi-user network games, like Ragnarok? And you do not have to be Chinese to play the game. The list of mah jong addicts include politicians, movie personalities, and regular folks like us. The only disadvantage of network mah jong is the absence of tiles that you can actually touch to "feel" before you actually "see". The wild acticipation while you are "puro" and waiting for "mah jong" is heightened if you can "feel" the tiles. What we need is a hardware output device engineer who can produce a "feelable" surface that shapes itself under program control to simulate the tile surface. Any ideas? P~Manalastas -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
