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ZXwire
Author	Chris Young
Filename	zxwire.tap
Year	2007
Position	No ranking
Format	Spectrum
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Description	A port of Ackwire to the Spectrum
Comments	First off, we'll have to admit to some level of bias here, as ZXWire is an fully fledged (arf!) Unsatisfactory Software production. Well, half-fledged. But that doesn't let it off - we wrote it and we know it's crap. As a conversion of Palm Favourite AckWire, it's something more akin to someone's end of year accounts - a kind of Monopoly on a spreadsheet, if you will. Gameplay effectively entails entering some numbers and then waiting a bit, and then entering some more numbers, during which nobody has any idea what's going on. Even we don't know what's going on. Summat about hotels, and shares and that. We forget. In fact, we don't even know what was in the code *as it was being written.* One or two (probably more) essential features are still MIA, particularly that of any way of gauging a winner.