It makes a change to set the clock back, here to the 16th century as the British once more do battle with the Spanish Armada.

The screen displays a view from your ship's deck, its cannot and outlook to sea. An enemy vessel appears and travels across the waves. After selecting its angle and powder-load, your cannon is fired. Sinking the enemy produces another ship until all 10 of the British or Spanish fleet are annihilated. If you miss the ship returns fire.

This sounds complicated but before long you are so familiar with the angles and loads that the game becomes boring.

The game is supposed to be for one or two players. In the one-player situation, you play the computer, which has a 50 per cent chance of making a hit. When two people play, they take turns.

Apart from the instructions however, there is no difference between the one- and two-player game - the display is the same and the computer participates as before. There is little point in two people competing, since it may be the computer that decides the winner, not necessarily skill. Needs Extended Basic.

J.W.