★ APPLICATIONS ★ DIVERS ★ AMSTRA-DRAW (c) SPECTADRAW|Popular Computing Weekly) ★ |
| Amstra-Draw | Applications Divers |
Relegated Apreity straight conversion from the Spectrum release Spectra-draw, the pools prediction utility which was acclaimed as being the most attractive and friendly of its genre. Indeed my first impression was pleasant surprise at the quality of packaging and presentation. There is a small manual taking you through all the features and the screen display is easy to follow being menu-driven and with prompts for data entry and correction. It comes with an extensive database containing the results of many thousands of matches in recent years. This must be updated each week to ensure that current form is taken into account. It is written in Basic, which doesn't matter a bit, and you are positively encouraged to break in to the Listing to correct data for relegation, etc. if you feel this is beyond you, or you allow the database to fall behind you can have both updated for a small charge. Predictions are for draws only but you can ask for the least likely ones as well There is also a routine to help you fill out the coupon. Using the system, the company anticipates that you will finish the season with a small profit. One point does worry me though - unless you include a random element in your selection, as advised, the more people who use the utility the smaller the winnings will be. Tony Kendle, PopularComputingWeekly
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