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DOS
Tile-matching
solitaire mahjongg games, Shisen-Sho games and Ishido games for MS-DOS.
If
you should find any errors or omissions (who I'm sure there are plenty
of...); please contact me.
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Dragons Bane: Mah Jongg II v.1.2
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Shareware
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'Dragons Bane' is a ms-dos
game and is the successor to Nels Andersons popular shareware
game 'Mah Jongg'. High score, sound, hints. Use your own .pcx
pictures as backgrounds. 6 tilesets and 4 layouts. Tileset
Editor and Layout Editor. 136 user-made and free tilesets are
available for download
on the homepage. Review at Shareware
Junkies.
Author: Nels Anderson. From 1996. Req.: MS-DOS 3.3 or higher. If
you have a Pentium 200Mhz or better, you must use a "slow
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Ishido: Way of the Stones
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Abandonware
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The original Ishido game made by
Michael Feinberg. Published for Mac in 1989 and DOS in 1990. 6 stone sets, 5
game boards, high score, undo, hint, and oriental music. It has four game mode: Solitaire,
Cooperative (2 players work together), Tournament (several people
plays entire identical games) and Challenge (against a second player
or the computer). For more information, check the entry in the
Ishido section.
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Lin Wu's Challenge |
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| Shisen-Sho. MSDOS game from
1990 by an defunct German company called Lasersoft. The review
from 'Home of the Underdogs' says it all: "..is a lackluster Mahjongg game...The gameplay is very straightforward and quite
dull...and the graphics is below par. Worth a look only if you collect Mahjongg games." |
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Mah Jongg 4.2
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Shareware
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Old ms-dos game from 1994, but very
popular in it's time because of all the user made tilesets
available (800+ in .TIL format). Tile Editor, timed games, high score, hint.
Author: Nels Anderson. First version in 1987. EGA version.
640x350 pixel mode. |
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Mah Jongg
Solitaire (DOS)
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Freeware
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Very simple DOS
game. Hint and Undo.
Author: Loren Blaney. Written in his XPL0 Programming Language.
Req.: 286+,
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Mah Jongg
-V-G-A 3.0
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Abandonware
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Old, but popular ms-dos game from 1991 by Ron Balewski.
Abandonware. High score, help. Very popular in it's time because
of all the user made tilesets available (100+ in .TIS format). You
will probably have to use a "slow down' utility.
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-297 kb - download from WinSite
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Price: NA
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Decent graphics.
Only standard layout and tileset. Hint, save/ load games. Made in
Allegro
- a game programming library for C/C++ developers (you have to
download their windows library first). Versions for Dos
(213 kb), Windows and Linux. Author: Daniel Harmon. |
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MJ 99
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Freeware
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Game and website in German only.
Author: Martin J. Fiddler.
NOT AVAILABLE
AT THE MOMENT!
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MyMahjongg
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Freeware
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Old, simple DOS
version. 4 layouts and 8 tilesets. Undo and Hint. Author: Vincent
Gonzales. Requires that the Euphoria Programming Language (950
kb) is installed. Euphoria
homepage. |
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Sarakon
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Abandonware
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| Shisen-Sho.
Commercial
DOS release from 1991 (Amiga version so early as 1988, C64 in
1990). The
graphics was perhaps impressive then, but not anymore
today...The tiles are stacked on top of each other. The game
gets progressively more difficult as rounds pass - both the
number of tiles and different symbols on the tiles increase. The
precursor to 'Curse of Ra'. Made by German company Starbyte who
closed around 1993. Abandonware. |
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sarakon.zip - 1.2 mb |
Homepage: NA
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Shanghai
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Historical
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| The original 1986 game from
Activision who created a whole new genre. Help, complete rules, a tournament mode, "peek" option,
undo. See the history section for more information.
Activision is a member of the ESA (formerly IDSA) who
strongly oppose to that old games should be made available for
download (abandonware). No download here then.
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Homepage: NA
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Shogatsu
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Abandonware
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the first Ishido clone? Today it looks terrible. Made in Turbo
Pascal 4.0 for the CGA screen. DOS text-mode game. Made by Alan
Meiss (1990-1991). No mahjongg tiles. Included here for
historical reasons. Rules very similar to the original Ishido
(press F1 for detailed help). Listed as Shareware, but no
limitations. Most definitively abandonware today. |
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shogatsu.zip - 14 kb |
Homepage: NA
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$5
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Good,
but simplistic graphics. Its
default tile set uses "westernized" pictures. Uses
.stl (Solitile style tilesets) and .til (mahjongg
style tilesets). Some
user made layouts and tilesets available on the homepage.
Author: Everett Kaser. Windows version also available. |
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The Curse
Of Ra [RA] (DOS)
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Abandonware
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Shisen-Sho. Made by Rainbow Arts in 1990 - an ancient Egyptian theme.
Level editor and a "arcade" game mode (time-limited).
MS-DOS game from, abandonware. For more information, check
the full entry in the Shisen-Sho section.
Other versions: C64 (1990), Amiga (1992), Atari ST (1990)
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TEGL
Mahjong Solitaire 1.2
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Abandonware
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A very simple old
DOS game from 1993. Mahjongg and Alphabet tilesets. Hint and
"sound". I'm sure the graphics were good that time...
.The screenshot is from v.1.1 made in 1989 (I never got the 1.2
version to work on my PC). Update: 1.2 is playable under DOSBOX.
Shareware ($15), but the company
(TEGL Systems Corporation) is not alive anymore, therefore I
list it as abandonware. Download v.1.1 here
(81 kb). Author: Richard Tom. |
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Website: NA
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Here: Screenshot
from v. 1.2
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Tiles 1.1
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Abandonware
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A text-based DOS
version from 1992. Seven levels with increasing difficulty. A
numbers tileset. As the author himself says: "...you
simply can't draw an orchid convincingly in 8 text
mode characters and make it look different to the
Chrysanthemum." Shareware (optional how much), but
abandonware today. Made by Daniel G. Rigal, UK. |
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Website: NA
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Price: NA
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Tiles Of
The Dragon
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Commercial
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Old ms-dos solitaire mahjongg game made by SoftDisk Publishing
in 1993. Solitaire and Tournament mode (with a pre-established
time limit per game). Hint, undo. Author: Tom Hall. 231 kb. Review
at HOTU.
The game has been spotted on abandonware sites.
Req.: DOS 3.30 or higher. |
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