Windmill Software is a Canadian software company. Windmill Software today publishes

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and

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software, but the company is more notable for its past role as a

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, marketer,

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, and distributor of

computer and video games ''Computer and Video Games'' (also known as ''CVG'', ''Computer & Video Games'', ''C&VG'', ''Computer + Video Games'', or ''C+VG'') was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004. Its offshoot website ...

. The company developed several games for the

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in the early 1980s. Windmill Software was acquired by Dude Solutions in March 2015.

Games

*
Floppy Frenzy
' (1982) *''

Video Trek 88 ''Video Trek 88'' is a computer game developed and published by Windmill Software in 1982, based on the earlier ''Star Trek (1971 video game), Star Trek'' text game. As opposed to the mainframe version, both the galactic chart and the local map are ...

'' (1982) *
Attack on Altair
' (1983) *''Conquest'' (1983) *'' Digger'' (1983)
''The Exterminator''
(1983) *
Moonbugs
' (1983) -- a rare example of a 16-color RGBI CGA titl

*'' Rollo And The Brush Bros'' (1983) *''

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'' (1983)

Unreleased

*''Vortex'' (a '' Tempest'' clone) *''PeeWee'' (a '' Q*bert'' clone) *A version of ''

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References

External links

About Windmill Software

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Retrieved 25 January 2011.
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