xyWords - Text Mode Edition

xyWords is a cross-word anagrams game where the object is to use letters in the wheel and find words on the board.

These words can be interconnected like a cross-word or isolated on the board. You need to find all of the words to complete the board.

Hidden (off board) words can be found for a bonus challenge.

This is a text-mode rewrite of the earlier (CGA based) xyWords.

This download contains the game, assets and source code written in Quickbasic 4.5

Notes - 

This release was a bit of an extra challenge to see if I could get xyWords to run on a PC with only 256KB of RAM and no graphics card (MDA).

It also contains some concepts planned for xyWords 2.0 including; statistics and multi-player (hotseat) support.

The game runs efficiently on even the slowest of IBM-PCs and it can run entirely from a single floppy disk

Note - there is no puzzle editor included but you can edit the text files directly if you want to create one.