The blurb with this cassette tells you that it can provide "entertaining fun" - which is a reasonable claim - or "a serious aid to developing your hidden mind powers" - which it is not.

It's fine for fun at a party, but if you're seriously into psychic matters, it's a joke. (Of course, if you sneer at these things, you probably wouldn't but the tape anyway.)

What The Oracle claims to do is answer questions, of course, along the lines of finding lost possessions, getting over a run of bad luck, or patching things up with a loved one.

There is a different program for general and personal questions, one of each side of the tape, but although the programs take ages to load, there isn't an awful lot to them.

You tell the ZX81 your name, select a question from the menu, and then concentrate hard on a number of patterns it offers you, before choosing the one you "respond" to. According to your choice, you receive a short answer to your question, followed by the offer of another one. That's it.

C.C.R.