This is it. The end of copyright laws as we know them. Well, not really. I had the odd pang of conscience as I loaded this program; but I decided to reveal all, mainly because it is not so brilliant that you can forget about ever buying any software again.

If you are so paranoid about losing your favourite program or fear the playful attentions of the family cat amongst your cassettes, you will no doubt get one of these whatever I say. But you can forget about going into the software piracy business.

For a start it is quite fiddly to use; in, out, shake it all about, I began to lose track of what I was copying on to which cassette and whether I had done it already. That is an exaggeration, but you (probably) know what I mean. It gets a bit much if you are trying to copy a program that loads in more than one stage. Maybe my irritation arose from trying it out on too many programs at one go, but I didn't have all the year to test it so I worked through nearly all my cassettes at one go.

This brings out another sad fact, Sod's Law applies here: the very programs you most wish to preserve are going to be the very ones that this program cannot copy. It won't copy on to disk either, so that meant that I couldn't make any time saving on my 16K programs which take so long to load from cassette. My advice? Spend your schekels on something else unless this is absolutely essential.