Eborsoft has produced a number of card game compilations grouped into sets of two to four per tape, each tape retailing at £15. The tapes covered in this review are Cards 4 (Tausendeins, 66, Schneider), Cards 5 (Jass, Klabberjass), Cards 9 (Euchre, Five on Top, Eoarte) and Cards 11 (Yukon, Schapfkopf, Bassadewitz).

Comments for all tapes are much the same. All programs are written in Basic, follow a similar style and are very poor.

Each game starts with only a sentene or two of instrctions, written in a most confusing note form. Even an experienced card player playing friend found the instructions almost impossible to follow. When we did manage to decipher the aim, most were very frustrating to play, with a long delay while the cards were shuffled then dealt. There were several simple bugs, and input error-checking was very bad.

Programs of the standard offered by these tapes appeared soon after the launch of the Oric 1 - Oric owners have come to expect a lot better than these poor offerings from Eborsoft!!

D.N.