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Waydor is a text-and-graphics adventure that offers the player the usual challenge of collecting treasure.

My copy of the game came without instructions, but the adventure is of standard format, and unless you're completely new to this sort of game you shouldn't have any difficulties.

The program has a somewhat limited vocabulary, but the error-checking is good, and tells you which word is causing difficulties.

There are eight treasures to be collected. My only complaint here is that some of them are too easy to find. One or two you can discover only by chance.

Once found, the treasures have to be deposited in a particular location to qualify for a score. You have to find this location for yourself. but it isn't difficult.

One annoyance in playing Waydor is that the program doesn't accept abbreviated commands. To move anywhere you have to type 'Go West' and so on, rather than just the usual 'W'.

The lack of abbreviations is most annoying where the inventory command is concerned. The limit to how much you can carry is lower than in some games, and this means you have to use the Inventory quite frequently to decide what to drop.

Waydor isn't bad as far as adventures for the Oric are concerned. It isn't startlingly original, but the locations carry an unusually large number of objects so there's a lot of experimenting to do. An enjoyable challenge.