Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal... and much more.
Tandy Color Computer 3, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Emacs, and... Microsoft Word? Yup. Wordle is there too.
I’m going to be honest… I really don’t like wordle. Just not my type of game.
But, you know what I do like? When software gets ported to, and developed for, older and lesser used computing platforms. That makes me smile. A lot.
What follows are attempts at re-creating wordle for a wide variety of computer platforms (both past and present… mostly past). It’s all over the map. From Windows 3.1 to PalmOS to Commodore 64. And a whole lot more. This is, by no means, a complete list. But, holy cow, there’s a lot here.
Enjoy.
Windows 3.1
There are actually two wordle clones for Windows 3.1. Because… why not, right?
Windle, written in Delphi 1 (a visual RAD IDE for Pascal from Borland).
And WinQuest, which was developed in Visual BASIC 3.0.
UNIX Terminals
There are a few command line variations on wordle…
cwordl is written in C (hence the name) and can be built and run on just about any UNIX / LINUX / BSD type shell.
wordle.sh is written entirely in BASH.
wordleTTY is written in Python for VT200 and ANSI terminals.
Commodore 64
“Word Slide!” brings wordle to the Commodore 64.
And there’s also “WORDLE for C=64”.
TRS Color Computer 3 (Coco 3)
COCOLE. For the CoCo. Nice.
PalmOS
PalmWordle is build for Palm OS 3.5 (and newer) devices.
Atari 2600
Just like with Windows 3.1, there are two wordle clones for the 2600.
And “Word Guess”.
Atari 7800
Say what? There’s a version of wordle for the Atari 7800 too?! Yup. “W O R D L E”.
DOS
Once again, DOS has two wordle’s:
DOSWord (a 32bit DOS game).
WOR-DOS (for 16 bit DOS).
Game Boy
gb-wordle is built for the original Game Boy. Which… honestly… probably would have sold like hotcakes back in the day.
Emacs
WHUT. There is a wordle clone for Emacs? Yup. “Wordel”.
Microsoft Word 97
Ok. Now this is just getting ridiculous. But also awesome.
Wordle… written in VBA… for Word 97. “WORDle 97”.
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