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Well, at least this is an original program! It is totally unlike any other that I have come across - not a game, but based on the 4,000-year old Chinese oracle known as I Ching.

The sleeve notes say: "Its philosophy reflects Taoist and Confucist ideas". While I am unable to confirm or deny this claim, I find it hard to believe that a few predetermined statements, randomly selected by pressing the space bar will really shed light on "the unconscious and inner self".

This is one of the first Dragon offerings from Virgin and comes with an extending cassette inlay, a novel feature of whcih is a profile complete with photo of programmer James Breffini.

I didn't manage to load from side 1, but side 2 loaded every time. A neat auto-running intro displays the Virgin logo followed by the title page.

The program is written in Basic and uses most of the Dragon's free memory to store the large amount of text required.

On balance, I would think Chairman Mao's little red book is probably more interesting and better value for money than this.

E.C.