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The program itself is quite clever, user-friendly and graphical.

The problem is, it is written in Basic, so there are a few limitations: firstly, speed and secondly sound and vision. The program is full of BEEP commands which become very irritating after a short while.

In play you must first choose your direction to throw by moving a 'cursor' (which is in fact a line which points towards the jack) and pressing enter.

Then you must press b to bowl and a 'weight' at which you wish to throw. A small pixel will rush up the screen and, with any luck, position itself next to the jack.

If it hits something then everything flies off in different directions as it would in a normal game.

If something hits something, which in turn hits something else, though, I suspect the program may not quite be doing what it is supposed to.

when the bowls have all stopped rolling, you can get an enlargement which shows more clearly what is happening at the other end of the screen.

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