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Here's a bizarre one - only just surfacing despite a 1988 copyright date and distributed by Domark for the mysterious Leisure Electronic Designs.

So what do we have? Really, no more than a superior magazine listing, giving you a database structure and an alarm facility. There's room for you to add personal details and then start to fill up other categories. There are sections with computer industry addresses, facts about the inputted date through history, weather forecasts and even two quick recipes for keyboard snacks.

I suppose some of this is useful but value only comes from a program like this when you use it every day and build up a databank of stuff, when you actually use the diary and alarm functions and when the address book contains information that's useful. It has to be said, however, that a pocket diary allows you to do all of this, rather more cheaply.

This seems, in fact, to be aimed squarely at the Christmas relative market - ah yes, little Johnny's got a computer, this will be so much better for him than one of those nasty alien games. Says who?

So, disappointment in this corner, I'm afraid - especially with the in-built games of hangman and reaction timer.