Mice-loving Commodore 64 users need wait no longer. Wimps are here for their machines.

SMC supplies is producing a mouse package, including a graphics system, a sprite and character designer, and interface routines for your own programs.

The price is £59.95 and the system is also available for the BBC Micro in competition with the AMX. It should be in the high street shops within three to four weeks.

For people with QLs and Amstrads, the same system should be ready in three months.

On both the BBC and Commodore 64, the facilities include different brush sizes, air brush, rubber banding, triangles, circles, boxes, fills, screen save, and screen dumps for most Centronics printers. Other packages include a sprite designer and a character definer, both of which can be incorporated in your own programs.

SMC says that the mouse can be used instead of a joystick within most games, but since the system is digital (via the user port), an analogue software driver will be needed for the BBC Micro.