Floppywise Master is, as you'd expect, a ROM of disc utilities for the Master 128. It is an upgrade to the original Floppywise (reviewed Beebug Vol. 4 No. 1).

The ROM has (yet another) disc sector editor and main memory editor and a ROM inspector. These operate in mode 7 and are fast, if not original. Like BROM Plus, Floppywise Master has disc and memory search routines which enter the relevant editor on each find. It has multiple file copy and delete routines too, and even an automatic menu system.

*FCOMPARE compares a disc file with a section of memory. *RESTORE places data directly at a specified location on the disc. Most original is the *AUTOSAVE command. This will automatically save a copy of a program under development every four minutes without troubling the user.

Useful commands for Master owners are AFORM and AVERIFY. These format and verify a disc in ADFS mode. Three formats are available: 40, 80 and 160 which treats both sides of a disc as one large disc. *FILES displays a hierarchical list of all the files on an ADFS disc - very useful when lost in a directory maze.

Routines are provided to enable or disable ROMs and load in ROM images from disc - rather pointless on the Master which already has the *SRLOAD command. However, more useful are the *RMOVE command to move sideways programs from one slot to another, *RSEARCH to search a sideways slot, *RCLEAR to clear a slot and *CROM to copy a ROM to disc.

Floppywise Master also has a selection of Basic toolkit commands which sit uneasily amongst the rest. *FIND is a standard Basic program string search. *CLEAR = zeros all variables, *BAD recovers a 'Bad program', *BMOVE moves down a program intended for the cassette filing system. *FUNC 1lists the function key definitions, *ASCII prints out all the ASCII codes and characters and *TOKENS lists the Basic keyword tokens.

Floppywise Master provides a useful array of commands but little that is original. What's more, Floppywise Master seems to be designed by a committee. It has none of the coherent design of, say, a Clares' ROM like Brom Plus or Ramrod which provide essentially the same material.