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Beyond Columns 1.1 (BEYOND)
By Brad P. Taylor
"...is like Tetris, only different." The original columns game, however,
according to the author of BEYOND, was invented for the X window system by
Jay Geertsen of HP.
In this game, you control columns as they move down the screen, much like with
Tetris. However, each column is composed of three different blocks and you
make the columns dissolve by getting three blocks of the same color or design
(your choice of several block designs is given) in a row, vertically,
horizontally, or diagonally.
To further complicate things, you can rearrange the blocks within the columns
so that, for example, if a column on the bottom has two green blocks on top
and the falling column has a green block in the middle, say, you can rotate
the middle green block to the bottom of the column so that when it lands on
the column with the two green blocks, there will be three green blocks in a
row, causing them to dissolve. This program is a lot more difficult than Tetris.
This program must be used with VGA or MVGA only!
To start this program, with this disk in drive A, type: BEYOND (PRESS ENTER)