## Description
_Windoze_ is a variation on Columns which pokes fun at Microsoft’s popular
operating system, as evidenced by its use of the fashionable Usenet epithet
for that OS at the time. The familiar colored blocks are replaced with various
icons from Windows 3.x, which descend from above in groups of three and pile
down at the bottom.
The triplets can be moved, flipped and rotated as they fall, and points are
scored by forming rows, columns or diagonals of 3 or more identical icons,
thus removing them from the pile. The action speeds up as it goes on, and
every 1000 points a special “wildcard” block appears: touch it down on an
icon, and its matching brethren will all be wiped out in one fell swoop.
The source code, written in XPL0 (a Pascal variant) and assembly, is included.
Despite its looks, _Windoze_ is a DOS game – as the author states, “it does
not require Microsoft’s version of Windows, since it has more than a
sufficient quantity of icons on its own.”
Windoze