Question about Mahjongg Variety Pack

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I found the Mahjongg Variety Pack at Best Buy for $10. It says that
it includes "Mahjongg: Game of Four Winds", and one of the
illustrations on the jewel-case insert looks very much like the
program listed on Tom Sloper's site as "Mahjongg The Real Game!
(Berrie Bloem) http://www.mahjongg.com/" (which I downloaded and
enjoy).
Does anyone know if the copy on the Variety Pack CD is the
fully-registered game, or just another shareware copy? I'm not about
to pay good money for another copy of shareware I already have.

x@y.zzz

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From: x@y.zzz

>I found the Mahjongg Variety Pack at Best Buy for $10. It says that
>it includes "Mahjongg: Game of Four Winds", and one of the
>illustrations on the jewel-case insert looks very much like the
>program listed on Tom Sloper's site as "Mahjongg The Real Game!
>(Berrie Bloem) http://www.mahjongg.com/" (which I downloaded and
>enjoy).
>Does anyone know if the copy on the Variety Pack CD is the
>fully-registered game, or just another shareware copy?

Mister "x," those cheap $10 packs almost always include just shareware or
demo versions. You would undoubtedly have to go pay the original creator of
the game to "unlock" the full version. Don't buy it unless you feel like
educating yourself about this alternate software business model.

Tom

 

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Tom Sloper wrote:
>> From: x@y.zzz
>> I found the Mahjongg Variety Pack at Best Buy for $10. It says that
>> it includes "Mahjongg: Game of Four Winds", and one of the
>> illustrations on the jewel-case insert looks very much like the
>> program listed on Tom Sloper's site as "Mahjongg The Real Game!
>> (Berrie Bloem) http://www.mahjongg.com/" (which I downloaded and
>> enjoy).
>> Does anyone know if the copy on the Variety Pack CD is the
>> fully-registered game, or just another shareware copy?
>
>
> Mister "x," those cheap $10 packs almost always include just shareware or
> demo versions. You would undoubtedly have to go pay the original creator of
> the game to "unlock" the full version. Don't buy it unless you feel like
> educating yourself about this alternate software business model.
>
> Tom




I think you're wrong this time, Tom. Sorry.
eGames don't sell shareware versions.

http://www.egames.com/ProdDetail2.asp?upc=743999128606

It says "complete" games.

Buy used at amazon cheaper:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000C865V/qid%3D1097048033/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-6507991-4231939


Regards from vegard krog petersen

 

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>>> From: x@y.zzz
>>> Does anyone know if the copy on the Variety Pack CD is the
>>> fully-registered game, or just another shareware copy?

>Tom Sloper wrote:
>> Mister "x," those cheap $10 packs almost always include just shareware or
>> demo versions. ... Don't buy it unless you feel like educating yourself
>> about this alternate software business model.

>From: Vegard Krog Petersen <vegard_krog_petersen@hotmail.com>
>I think you're wrong this time, Tom. Sorry.
>eGames ... says "complete" games.

Well, then, if egames says the games are complete, then it must be true!
[Retroactive sarcasm alert] (^_^)

Since Miss X (or whatever her name is) already has Berrie Bloem's game, the
only other good thing on there is probably Four Winds - the latest version
of which can be obtained directly from the creator's site. Why buy a pig in
a poke?

Tom

 

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"Tom Sloper" <tomster@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<wUN8d.76823$He1.33651@attbi_s01>...

> Since Miss X (or whatever her name is)...

How do you know it's "Miss"?

Milton Friedman, economist

 

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Tom Sloper wrote:
> Since Miss X (or whatever her name is) already has Berrie Bloem's game, the
> only other good thing on there is probably Four Winds - the latest version
> of which can be obtained directly from the creator's site. Why buy a pig in
> a poke?
>
> Tom

Can't argue against that, Tom! ;-)

 

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Egames is where "Mah Jongg The Real Game" has been laid to rest. Just to
add more confusion to the world, it was re-titled "Mah Jongg The Game of
Four Winds".

--
J. R.

 

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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:33:43 GMT, "J. R. Fitch"
<jrfitch@ninedragons.com> wrote:

>Egames is where "Mah Jongg The Real Game" has been laid to rest. Just to
>add more confusion to the world, it was re-titled "Mah Jongg The Game of
>Four Winds".
>
>--
>J. R.

That's what I figured. "Mah Jongg: The Game of Four Winds" was the
only title on there that I knew would be the 4-handed game, and there
was only one graphic shown on the package that looked like the
4-handed game, and I recognized that from Bloem's "Mah Jongg: The Real
Game". So I figured it had been renamed.

I currently have the unregistered version of that game, and I was
thinking that, if the Variety Pack offered the registered game, then
I'd be able to buy it for $10, as opposed to about $40 (or whatever
the current US equivalent would be), as stated in the game's
documentation.

As for other Mah Jong computer programs, at present I'm torn between
"Four Winds Mah Jong 2.0" and "Hong Kong Mah Jong" (I have shareware
versions of both of these, too). Both are terrific, beautifully-
rendered games. HKMJ has a simulation of a playing-table layout that
I like, and I like the animated pictures of the opponents. But 4WMJ
offers me the opportunity to learn so many more variations (which
makes it, in effect, more than one game, for a little higher price
than HKMJ), and I can take back a mistakenly-discarded tile (really,
really useful when learning). If I were going to get just one Mah
Jong program, right now it'd be a contest between those two. (Combine
the above-mentioned features of both programs into one, and I'd buy it
in a heartbeat.)

(And it's "Mister X", last time I checked. ;-) )

x@y.zzz

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--Milton Friedman, economist

 

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Other conflicting features: HKMJ has a great, friendly-game feel to it
(like playing at a friend's house), while 4WMJ has a profoundly Asian
atmosphere - as if you're playing somewhere in China or Japan. (When
I play 4WMJ, I like to listen to a CD of Chinese or Japanese music and
drink a cup of green tea. 🙂 )

x@y.zzz

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--Milton Friedman, economist

 

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On 2004-10-06 18:56:19 +0200, x@y.zzz said:

As for other Mah Jong computer programs, at present I'm torn between
> "Four Winds Mah Jong 2.0" and "Hong Kong Mah Jong" (I have shareware
> versions of both of these, too). Both are terrific, beautifully-
> rendered games. HKMJ has a simulation of a playing-table layout that
> I like, and I like the animated pictures of the opponents. But 4WMJ
> offers me the opportunity to learn so many more variations (which
> makes it, in effect, more than one game, for a little higher price
> than HKMJ), and I can take back a mistakenly-discarded tile (really,
> really useful when learning). If I were going to get just one Mah
> Jong program, right now it'd be a contest between those two. (Combine
> the above-mentioned features of both programs into one, and I'd buy it
> in a heartbeat.)

Well brother, just one good advice: just save some money, don't buy a
new audio cd this and next week, take the bus instead of a taxi for
just one week, don't buy french fries but make a healthy slice of bread
and butter this month - and buy *both* these terrific games. They are
top of the bill in mahjong computer games. The animations, the graphics
and the music of HKMJ4W are great - and now you even get Chinese
Official as a free extra! FourWinds 2.0 is somewhat less beautiful -
imho - but you can add the faces of your friends, mother-in-law or
Brigitte Bardot, and even their voices; and it can play against you
against with almost any ruleset you like. Don't choose, buy them both.
They are incredibly cheap. And: they are worth it.






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"Thierry Depaulis" <thierry.depaulis@freesbee.fr> wrote
>> Since Miss X (or whatever her name is)...
> How do you know it's "Miss"?

I didn't know if it was a Mr. or Miss, so I tried both. Today it said it's
male, not female. Maybe someday we'll even get a name. Or maybe in the
future nobody will ever use their names in public anymore, I don't know.
Maybe we'll all wear unisex clothes with gloves and masks that hide whether
we're male, female, black, white, young, old...

Tom

 

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In article <K6%8d.317528$mD.169814@attbi_s02>,
Tom Sloper <tomster@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote:

>I didn't know if it was a Mr. or Miss, so I tried both. Today it said it's

Does the U.S. use "Miss" for a woman of unknown or unspecified marital
status?
I thought that "Ms" was an American invention!

 

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"Julian Bradfield" <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote
> Does the U.S. use "Miss" for a woman of unknown or unspecified marital
> status?

No, but Miss is a specifically non-male pronoun.

> I thought that "Ms" was an American invention!

Could be. I don't know what country Ms. comes from - could well be the U.S.
I first heard it in the seventies, I think - an early harbinger of
"political correctness"

Cheers,
Tom