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There's nothing like a good quiz program to keep you occupied when the telly breaks down at Christmas. This program supplies the goods in terms of volume of questions but falls down of little in presentation. The game is based on the Waddington game Quiz Cards, which may explain the curious system it uses The multiple-choice questions you get a choice of three possible answers - are presented in sets of eight If you don't answer them all correctly you have to go to another set of eight before returning to the questions you got wrong before. Of course, you may make a mistake in the new set, in which case you have to go to another set before .................................................. Since There are only three alternative answers to any question you will eventually get them right, but this process seems to be unnecessarily tedious I s made worse by the fact that you' re not told an answer is wrong at the time you make it - so them s none of the jubilation or misery you might feel if you knew how you'd done . The screen display is nothing to write home about a collection of boxes changing colour which seem to have little to do with the game. Answers are entered by pressing fire or space bar when the cursor is on the one you want. Multiple choice has the advantage of doing away with annoying spelling errors - though the program does ask you about a planet called 'Jamus' - but does mean you've get more than a reasonable chance of guessing the answer. The questions them selves-and let's face it. This is the important bit - are spread over categories including Spoirt , TV Ceneral Knowledge and Pop. The cassette inlay claims over 200 questions per category, and I wouldn't dispute that. The same questions, though, will recur quite frequently in different sets.
You'll find come pretty easy but many fiendishly difficult. What's the average life span of a goose? Even after you've got it by a process of elimination you re not likely to remember for very long. A bonus is the Preparation file which allows you to make up around 200 of you're own questions A lot of scope there for the unscrupulous. For another £4.99 Alligata will provide a second tape with over 2.000 questions on 10 different topics. Should keep you going for a bit. GOOD NEWS:
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Page créée en 177 millisecondes et consultée 2697 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
