This book, as the title suggests, is supposed to cover a great number of applications for the Vic, and one assumes there'll be a great deal of explanation on just how to use your Vic in a fruitful way.

The book is split into three sections: the first is entitled Getting to know your Vic and covers a range of topics including printing, The Vic clock, programmable function keys - these are the most worthwhile parts of this section.

Section two is entitled Applications Programs and covers applications like managing money and calculating loans. The best of this section is a logic simulator, which is very elementary, but interesting.

The last section is the Appendix which, as expected, covers the usual screen, colour and ASCII maps and codes, followed by a useful index.

So for your £8.95, you get 136 pages of very well presented listings and text. And the text does give you an awful lot of information about the areas of the Vic that are covered. But the programs are rather old hat and simple, at least they seem to be 'bug-free'.

The real problem is that the book is very simple and is as Prentice Hall say aimed at the beginner - probably the younger beginner. Even so, it does not really contain enough to make it a good buy and would not have been three years ago.