My first niggle about this program surfaces when reading the on-screen
instructions. Why, when the BBC has cursor control keys, direct the
target crosswires with keys 1, 2, 3 and 4?!
The drawing of the dart board was very slow and could do with speeding
up, either by using better Basic techniques or putting this section into
machine code.
Once drawn, the target crosswires start to wander around and are
repositioned by using the aforementioned control keys.
When you judge you're on target, not always easy as the crosswires tend to
merge with the board on a colour TV, you fire your dart by hitting key 5.
The flight of the dart is again very ponderous and may drift off target
slightly. On arrival, your score is added to the running total until the
third dart, when the whole lot is deducted from the total and player two
has his go.
The games soon loses its appeal mainly due to the slow speed and lack of
good sound effects.
9th August 1983
