This book, 60 Programs For The BBC Micro, is the latest in an increasingly large selection of books from the Personal Computer News library. As you may have guessed, it is explicitly a book of listings, some of which seem to have been adapted from other micros to work on the beloved Beeb. For this reason, many of them are poor programming examples as they fail to make adequate use of BBC Basic, I cannot, for instance, understand why anyone would persist in using GOSUBs in preference to PROCedures. One program uses three GOBUBs in the first five lines!

The programs are reproduced listings which, thankfully, are of very good quality, most of them being preceded with a dozen or so lines of introduction. The programs include 'arcade action games... tactical games... quizzes, tests of mental agility, party games and a leavening of utility and educational programs'. Seventeen of the programs will run on a model A machine.

Not one of my favourites, though I'm sure the insomniacs among you will find it of some use.