Moria is a milestone in being the first commercial Oric program I have seen to fast load into the Oric.

The Mines of Moria, from the book Lord of the Rings, are the ancient home of Durin's folk, the dwarves. Long deserted, they contain hoards of jewels and gold, protected by ancient and evil terrors.

Your tasks is to search for Durin's Ring through a number of levels in the mines - represented each time by a grid of 36 squares.

When you meet a monster you can choose to fight or retreat, and wounds and strength levels are recorded. Lose more t han 10 lives or less than nil strength and you are dead. Watch out - the cassette inlay card tells you to use "y" for retreat. Not so. It should be "r".

To help you in your quest, you can buy spells from the wizard or ointment from the trader, at a price.

S.I.