Chinese Tiles

Chinese Tiles © Predrag Stanojevic, 1995-1997 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 old chinese game Mah-Jongg. There are many shareware versions of this game for various systems. I've seen a couple of others for the mac as well. 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. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1) System 7 (or greater) 2) 256 Colours (it works with 256 grayscale) How to Play REMOVING TILES 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. TILESETS, DESCRIPTION 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) that match each other and there is ORC, PLUM, MUM and BAM that also match each other. Menus LAYOUT In the layout menu you can choose layout. TILESETS In the tileset menu you can choose tileset. Choosing custom brings up a file dialog box where you can choose a tileset you have made yourself. If you load a tileset made for 12" (512x384) resolution it will be scaled up if you play in 13" (640x480) resolution. It follows that if you load 13" (640x480) tileset while playing in 12" (512x384) mode it will be scaled down. Scaling down is somewhat OK, scaling up doesn't look so good. SPECIAL -1- In the special menu you have three options. Find Find next pair to be removed. Undo Undo last move. Remove Remove the currently marked pair. Peek Take a look at the tile under the currently marked. Hall Of Fame A higscore list. The highscore result: Highscore = InitialNumberOfTiles - (InitialNumberOfTiles-TilesLeft) + InitalTilesPossibleToRemove; Sound Put on the sound effects. (Only a few yet) Some better sounds will hopefully be added in a future release. Background colour You can choose a custom background colour. Iconize My implementation of "Boss coming", so that you can hide away your game quickly. Window Size In the preferences menu you can chose between between two screen sizes. One screen size for those of you with Colour Classics or 12" screens with resolution 512x384 pixels and the other screen size for you with 13" or larger screens showing a resolution of 640x480. MAKING CUSTOM TILES 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. T…