It is interesting how certain games are popular on certain platforms, but not on others. On the Atari ST, for example, there were probably more Shisen-Sho games than on all other platforms combined. On the other hand, Mancala games were immensely popular on the Commodore 64, and later moderately popular on the PC and Mac, but are hardly found on other platforms. For the Atari ST, I have found only one, and it was created when the ST was already past its prime.
In 1995, Jean-Paul Berroir created Awele for Tcl/Tk on Unix. The next year, Dominique Béréziat ported this code to GEM. In 2004, Awele was updated to version 1.02, fixing some bugs with Aranym and other Atari Clones. Awele can run on a standard ST, but it really expects a hi-res color desktop. On a standard ST it will look like this:
![[Awele in black and white]](http://www.lauppert.ws/screen2/awele1.png)
Not exactly a pretty sight, but nevertheless fully playable.
