This little gem from Activision has an excellent programming screen allowing fast drawing. What it basically does is give you various strings of characters all ready to call and, by moving an arrow cursor, you can compile your own program. This makes for a slow technique, but good end results - even though, as an artist, I would have liked more freedom to jot and draw rather than have shapes "dictated" to me by the program. I have this dream of a simple jotting pad - perhaps a light pen is the answer!

The demos were the best of the bunch, showing what could be done - but now how! It took a while to get the hang of entering the various levels, but fortunately the manual is well designed and easy to follow.

I found the simple act of drawing difficult, even though the colour facility was good. It still wasn't what I would call "user friendly" - the "strings" required parameters and locations and words like "recursion" were used!