Do you ever find that the latest game you've bought has the most stupid key configuration you ever dreamt of? Or do you wish that you could play with a joystick rather than keyboard? Frantic Fingers may be the answer. This machine code program allows you to reconfigure the keys or allows joystick control for games only offering key control.

When the main program is loaded, you are given the option to reconfigure the keys or to set up joystick control. You are asked to press the appropriate keys. Once you've done this, you can save a short machine code patch which can be loaded before your main program.

I personally find that the key configuration of all the latest games for the Beeb are well thought out and that keyboard offers more control than the flimsy potentiometer joysticks, so programs of this type aren't needed. The machine code routine only performed its duty with a small minority of the latest commercial arcade games and it is too highly-priced. Similar programs have been published in magazines before.

S.S.