What, you may ask, have computers got to do with telepathy? The answer comes in the form of a do-it-yourself ESP tester called Telepath. The program starts by asking for your name, and then goes through a rather long title sequence, all printed in lower and upper case on the hi-res screen.

You are next asked if you would like "a short audio history [of telepathy] with graphics demonstration". Pressing "Y" returns a prompt to turn over the tape, which you play while the computer goes through a very nice graphics routine. The "audio history" consists of a man speaking against a background of swishy synthesizer music, and isn't exactly comprehensive, but quite interesting all the same.

Finally Telepath comes to the ESP test itself. This proved to be rather disappointingly dull, involving seemlingly endless repetitions of "Which card am I thinking of?" questions, to which the user presses one of the keys 1-5. The tests consist of groups of 25 "guesses", and at the end of each group the program prints the number of correct guesses in that group, as well as your running total. The user may then continue with the text, start again, lengthen or shorten the test duration, and do a variety of other things including quit.

As there are five cards to choose from, and 25 guesses per group, the program points out that if guessed at random, a non-telepath could expect to score five per group. I scored four.