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This marvellous little package is more than a quiz, more than a game and much more than so many of the educational programs on the market. High praise you say, but consider what you get for your money. A choice of fifteen quiz topics, each containing fifty questions, three different ways of answering - multiple choice, true or false and fill in the missing letters. Then there's a facility to pass if you're really stuck, a summary of your performance and the chance to re-run the ones you passed or got wrong. All this under the eyes of the micro timekeeper.

Add to that good graphics in the form of craters, planets, spaceships and your friendly robot with his laser gun. Mix in a little sound and you have part two - a game, triggered by correctly answering a question. A tone sounds, an alien spaceship appears from behind your planet, you hit the robot's laser fire button and try to shoot it down.

It's really compelling stuff. But wait...there's more to come. Being the mastermind that you are, it won't take you long to come to grips with the correct answers to most of the 750 questions available. Therefore you can create your own.

Even this can be done using the program's create, save and verify facility. Now you have a package made for the kids to do their homework with. You set the questions, and they get to shoot down all the nasties from outer space. Peace will reign in your household. Watch out, Magnus Magnusson. Your job's in jeopardy.

Ken Smith