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This is a novelty program for the Spectrum, and is based on those books of faces which have several sections to each page.

You have a blank oval face and options to choose hair, eyes, nose, ears or mouth. You then have the choice of five different pre-drawn features.

By choosing the various parts some rather weird but not very realistic faces can be created.

Once you have completed your Picasso, then you have a further option which neither he nor those old books could provide - an option to wiggle the ears or nose, smile or frown, blink either eye, or do all these movements in sequence.

This program is easy to use, responsive and fast enough to do what little moving is required.

The graphics are fair, sound is virtually non-existent.

You can save and load a completed face on tape, but not make a printer copy. This would be easy to add, and Stell should really have included it.

I feel that I shouldn't like this frivolous use of a sophisticated computer, but I did. I'm sure many children between 3 and 10 could get many hours of innocent amusement from it.

R.E.