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Instructions with spelling mistakes don't promise well for the product inside, and while this graphics-adventure in Basic is at least an attempt at something different, it simply can't compete with much of the excellent Dragon software now around.

Your aim is to sail from Miami to Bermuda, and the first low-res screen shows you off the coast of Florida, needing to input compass directions. The type of boat isn't named, but the fact that it can sail across land shows a certain lack of attention to detail, I think.

At this stage you collect weapons, compasses, etc to help you through the second map, near the triangle itself.

This is also low-res, and is just a rectangle across which you manoeuvre like a mine-field from west to east, avoiding or hitting the hidden storms, time warps, sea monsters and the triangle itself.

Entering the triangle isn't the end of the matter, as you'll be given the chance to survive by playing one of several games, though all of them poorer than you'll find in any magazine.

The variety might appeal to the under-tens, but for the rest of us it will probably disappear into the Software Triangle, destiny of all unexceptional games.

M.G.