Tiles!

                                  8/6/89

  Tiles! is your basic no-frills Shanghai-type game.  A board is covered with
a  set  of  144  tiles,  36 different suits of 4 identical tiles, each with a
picture on it.   The object is to remove all the  tiles,  2  at  a  time,  by
matching pairs of identical tiles.  Select one tile and it becomes hilighted.
Select another matching tile and they both are removed from the  board.   The
catch  is  that  you can only select tiles which are on the end of horizontal
rows.  Some rows are on top of  other  rows,  but  you  can  match  tiles  on
different levels.  You select tiles by... Oh, you can figure that out. :-)

  Less  obvious  is  that selecting a tile a second time deselects that tile.
Selecting an unplayable tile deselects any selected tile.   Selecting another
playable  tile  that  doesn't match the currently selected one makes this new
tile the selected tile.   (Whew!  The words are more confusing than the game,
believe me.)   Selecting  no  tile  (the background)  will  also deselect the
selected tile if there is one.  If not, it unplays your last move.  You could
back up as far as you like just by clicking on the background, but if you  do
back up you can't really call it a win when all the tiles are gone.

  Every board can be solved.  Really.   The game could live on  a  hard  disk
with no problems:-)  It should get along with other programs quite well.  And
I  want  to  make  it  clear  that  I didn't intend to rip off any commercial
programs.  I had the game  completed  before  I  knew  about  any  commercial
offerings for the Amiga.   I must admit that it is, in fact, a rip-off of the
game GunShy for the Mac.  My heart sank as I walked  into  my  dealer's  show
room,  disk  in  hand,  ready  to  share  my gift with the world, and saw the
commercial program running on one of the display machines.

  But I got over that soon enough.   Please feel free to give this program to
all your friends.   And of course,  I am open to comments,  suggestions,  and
flames at:

    utoddl@unc.bitnet
    utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet
    utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu       <<--- Not sure about that one,
                                         I never send myself mail.
    Todd M. Lewis                  (919) 962-0101
    C.B. #3450, 402 Hanes Hall
    University of N. Carolina
    Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3450

(Modula-2 code for the Menu and Requester came from Richie  Bielak's  program
"Trails" on Fred Fish Disk #32.  Thanks Richie!   An early version of  Tiles!
was included on the October, 1988 JumpDisk.)