mjreadme.txt (c) By Berrie Bloem 1996 This mjreadme.txt file forms part of this zip file. This file contains release notes, installation information and information about error messages for Mah Jongg for Windows, Version 1.12. Please feel free to upload this ShareWare software to any electronic bulletin board, include it on the cover disk of your magazine, give it to anyone who might be interested, so as many people as possible will have a chance to enjoy this software, provided you distribute it in full, including all the files listed below, not more, not less, in an unaltered state. BEN BMP 75598 12-08-96 1:12a BWCC DLL 155712 2-28-95 4:51a FILE_ID DIZ 372 12-08-96 1:12a GONG WAV 42072 12-08-96 1:12a KINGFISH BMP 75598 12-08-96 1:12a MAHJONGG CNT 12191 12-08-96 1:12a MAHJONGG EXE 573216 12-08-96 1:12a MAHJONGG HLP 455752 12-08-96 1:12a MJREADME TXT 8003 12-08-96 1:12a NEWTILES BMP 75598 12-08-96 1:12a ORDER TXT 4256 12-08-96 1:12a ORDRFORM WRI 3840 12-08-96 1:12a STAKE WAV 4960 12-08-96 1:12a TABLE WAV 1442 12-08-96 1:12a TILES DLL 212048 12-08-96 1:12a YOJIMBO BMP 75922 12-08-96 1:12a Mah Jongg for Windows Version 1.12 is available on CompuServe's SWREG (GO SWREG). The ID is 11123. See 'order.txt' for information on how to order by phone, fax, mail or email. The shareware version including more tilesets and voice files is available from my homepage on the internet: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bloem or: http://members.aol.com/bloem A french version is also available from this page. Registration numbers for previous versions will work with this version. ******** Release Notes ******** If you have the Borland bwcc.dll file already installed in your Windows\System directory and it is not older than the one included in this zip file, then you don't need the Borland bwcc.dll file from this zip file. Note: This note concerns all files EXCEPT BWCC.DLL. None of the files of the previous release of "Mah Jongg for Windows 1.00" will work properly with this version. The best option is to replace all old files with these new ones. Note: Mah Jongg will run properly without all the sound files (*.wav) or the bitmap files (*.bmp). Note: See "mahjongg.hlp" topic "Licensing and Ordering Information - What's New" to read about all the additions and improvements in this version of the game. Note: Mah Jongg no longer uses the file called "mahjongg.ini" which is in your Windows directory. You can delete it if you no longer wish to play with the previous version. ******** Installation and Removal ******** System Requirements: Microsoft Windows (TM) version 3.10 or newer. Installing Mah Jongg for Windows: Just decompress the files into any directory of your choice, and you can immediately run the program from that directory. In Windows, open File Manager and Program Manager side by side. You now need to drag the file mahjongg.exe from File Manager to a program group in Program Manager. For example, if you already have a "games" program group in Program Manager you might like to add the mahjongg.exe file to this group. Now double click on the newly created icon for mahjongg in the program group and off you go - you are ready to play! Removing Mah Jongg for Windows: Just delete the files: mahjongg.exe, mahjongg.hlp, tiles.dll, mjreadme.txt, all the wave files and possibly any bitmap files used as tile sets. In the case of the Borland bwcc.dll file only delete if it is NOT in your Windows\System directory. Mah Jongg for Windows no longer uses its own initialization file called mahjongg.ini in your Windows directory. You can safely delete this file. ******** Error Messages ******** If you are unlucky Mah Jongg for Windows might show one of the following error messages: 1 Old version of "TILES.DLL" Solution: Make sure that the right version of tiles.dll is in the same directory as mahjongg.exe. You can check the version numbers in File Manager if you select the menu "View | All File Details". The version numbers of mahjongg.exe and tiles.dll are shown in the time stamp of those files: 01:12:00. The version of tiles.dll that came with release 1.00 (January 1995) will not work properly with this new version. If the problem remains, try the strategy followed in point 3 below, but look for TILES.DLL in stead of BWCC.DLL. After you've done all that, move the one and only copy of TILES.DLL left on your computer to the directory where you've installed mahjongg.exe. 2 Can't find "TILES.DLL" Solution: Move TILES.DLL, MAHJONGG.HLP, MJREADME.TXT and MAHJONGG.EXE all to the same directory. 3 You are using an old version of "BWCC.DLL". Copy the version from the Mah Jongg zip file to your Windows\System directory. Mah Jongg will now exit. Solution: Make sure that the correct version of BWCC.DLL is loaded in memory. If the copy of BWCC.DLL that came with the Mah Jongg zip file is newer than the copy found in your Windows or Windows\System directory, then copy the version from the Mah Jongg zip file to your Windows\System directory and delete any copies found in your Windows directory. Try running Mah Jongg again. If the problem remains then you have to search all directories listed after the "PATH=" and possibly "SET PATH=" statements in your autoexec.bat file and your Windows and Windows\System directory for copies of BWCC.DLL. Close all applications except Program Manager and File Manager. Make backup copies of all versions on a floppy disk and include information from which directory a particular copy came from. Delete any versions of this DLL in your Windows directory and copy the newest version you can find of this DLL to your Windows\System directory. Try running Mah Jongg again. If the problem still remains, then delete all copies of this DLL on your system, except for the copy in your Windows\System directory. Mah Jongg should run now. 4 Sorry... You are using a version prior to Windows 3.1. Mah Jongg needs Windows 3.1 or higher. Mah Jongg will now exit. Solution: I'm afraid you'll have to install a version of Microsoft Windows (TM) newer than the version you have now. Versions onwards from 3.10 should run Mah Jongg properly. 5 Mah Jongg has a problem allocating memory. Free up memory by closing other applications. Mah Jongg will now exit. Solution: The memory on a computer is limited. Other applications have taken up so much of it that Mah Jongg can't get enough to run properly. Close all applications you're not working on at the moment and try running Mah Jongg again. 6 Could not Create Timer Solution: There are only a limited number of timers in Windows. Other applications have taken up so many of them that Mah Jongg can't get the timers needed to run properly. Close all applications you're not working on at the moment and try running Mah Jongg again. 7 Error opening Help. Can't find "mahjongg.hlp". Make sure it is in the same directory as mahjongg.exe. Solution: Move TILES.DLL, MAHJONGG.HLP, MJREADME.TXT and MAHJONGG.EXE all to the same directory. All other problems are dealt with in the "mahjongg.hlp" file topic "Technical Information - Error Messages" or in the appropriate description of the dialog boxes "The Program Full Explanation - Information and Message Boxes". You can contact me if problems persist, see Ordering Information in "mahjongg.hlp" for how to contact me.