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- W H A T ' S N E W
- in Mah Jongg -V-G-A- Version 2.0
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- A new features summary for current users of MJVGA Version 1,1.
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- The Mah Jongg -V-G-A- program and documentation are
- Copyright 1989 Ron balewski
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- If you're a new user of Mah Jongg -V-G-A-, *PLEASE* read the primary
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- instruction manual found in MJVGA20.DOC. This update summary is meant
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- only for players who are familiar with MJVGA Version 1.1 and as such
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- does NOT document ANY of the features found in that version.
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- SPECIAL
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- The Info button has been replaced by a Special button. Whenever
- you click on Special, you'll open another sub-menu of seldom-used
- commands on the left side of the screen. The commands are as follows:
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- BACKGND
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- The BACKGND button will let you change the background color
- of the MJVGA screen. When you click on BACKGND, another
- window will open showing three bar graphs -- one for each
- of the primary colors red, green, and blue. You can add or
- subtract any color by clicking on its UP or DOWN button.
- Each click will raise / lower the color one "notch." If you
- hold the center button down while clicking, the color will be
- raised / lowered by ten "notches."
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- The color that you select will remain in effect as long as
- the game is in operation. However, the change will NOT be
- permanent. It will be lost qhen you quit MJVGA. To make a
- permanent change, you must use The Draftsman.
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- INFO...
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- Just like in Version 1.1.
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- DOS Shell
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- This will return you to a temporary DOS prompt. Type EXIT
- at the prompt to return to the game.
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- Sound
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- The Sound button will toggle on and off the new sound
- effects in MJVGA Version 2.0.
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- Timer
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- This will toggle the new timer display on and off. When the
- display is off, the timer will continue to run. You can,
- therefore, turn it on at any point in the game and get an
- accurate reading of the time.
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- Clicking on any of the sub-functions will execute the function,
- then close the sub-function menu. If you'd like to close the
- menu without executing one of the sub-functions, just click the
- right mouse button.
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- New Game
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- If you hold down the right mouse button while you click on New
- Game, you'll repeat the current game from the beginning.
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- What's Left
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- If you high-light a tile before selecting What's Left, you'll
- only be given a message on the left side of the screen which
- tells you how many of the selected tile are left. If you
- selected a season or flower, you'll be told how many seasons /
- flowers are left.
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- Help
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- If you click on Help while holding in the right mouse button,
- you'll only be given a message which tells you how many moves (if
- any) are left. You will not be shown any of them -- you'll have
- to find them yourself!
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- If you high-light a tile before selecting Help, you'll be shown
- only the moves which include that value of tile. If no moves are
- available with the high-lighted tile, you'll be so informed.
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- ATTENTION THREE_BUTTON MOUSE USERS:
- There are some short-cuts in effect for you. You can enter the
- Help sub-system from the game by just tapping the center mouse
- button. Holding down the right button while tapping the center
- will give you the abbreviated help described above.
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- You can step to next / previous moves by clicking the right /
- center mouse buttons. You can exit the help sub-system by
- pressing the center and right buttons simultaneously.
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- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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- Mah Jongg -V-G-A- v2.0 will accept five different command line
- options -- S, T, M, and D. The purpose of each is as follows:
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- S - Begin the game with sound off
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- T - Begin the game with the timer display off
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- M - Begin the game with messages off
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- D - Disables the dual-monitor feature. No data will be written to
- the monochrome monitor. Normally this feature can be ignored
- -- even if you don't have a monochrome monitor connected.
- However, if you're multi-tasking your computer (under DESQview,
- for example) and using the monochrome monitor as a second DOS
- environment, you won't want MJVGA to use that screen.
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- F - Read PAL.CFG and all .ICN files from another disk or
- subdirectory. Some examples:
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- f=a: <== This reads all files from drive A:
- f=E:\MJVGA\TILES2\ <== Reads tiles from E:\mjvga\tiles2
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- Note that all subdirectory references MUST be terminated with a
- backslash (as above).
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- Any of these options (except for re-enabling the monochrome monitor) can
- be changed once the game is started. These options simply control the
- position of these switches when the game starts. They let you set up
- the game to your liking without having to click on buttons once the game
- starts.
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- The parameters must be single letters separated by a space. They
- can be entered in any order.
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- Here are a couple of examples. Suppose you'd like to start the
- game with Messages turned off. The command would be:
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- MJVGA M
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- To start a game with all the options turned off, you'd type:
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- MJVGA S T M
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- The S, T, M, and D can be in any order.
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