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If you're fed up with eating power pills and slaying dragons then this may be for you.

You have five days to maximise your investment in six companies. You are given £15,000 to start with and you can then buy or sell shares. Your cash level is constantly printed and you are allowed overdrafts. If you have over £15,000 you can bank some to gain interest.

Lots of detailed information is available, well presented and clear, with the option of well-drawn diagrams. Play is interspersed with newsflashes which affect pries and stability of the market. If a company has done very well you get bonus shares, but sometimes companies fail. There is a minor bug: when you have asked for company details at the beginning the program is aborted later. Type "GOTO 1" (not RUN), refuse these details and all will be well.

It prints a critical analysis of your tactics, for example: "On two occasions you held onto shares at high prices when they were falling." Several paragraphs are in the same vein. In like this idea; perhaps I should have asked the program to review itself!

M.T.