These two programs come as separate cassettes but their application is so similar that I shall review them together.

The Monitor is a straightforward and rather uninspiring program which offered me an impressive-looking menu of options.

On closer inspection, however, I found that 75% of these options were either of very limited use or merely implemented existing keyboard commands (such as CALL).

These are minor problems though and the program does allow you to look at, fiddle about with and move around chunks of memory in an efficient and workmanlike manner. The memory display is particularly impressive, and should prove helpful to anyone unused to poking around in the Oric's memory.

There is not much you can say about disassemblers; they either do or they don't. This one definitely does and it does it very nicely. You input the start address and it churns out pages of 6502 mnemonics until you stop it. One gripe however, is that the start address must be in decimal notation exclusively.

G.P.