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- Math Quiz
- © Bits 'n' Bytes '93
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- created by Richard Hodson
- written by Mike Smith
- art work by Phillip Lloyd
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- This product is Shareware
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- Registration is £1.00
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- Bits 'n' Bytes
- 26 Grenville Road
- Saint Judes
- Plymouth
- PL4 9PY
- 0752-667599
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- This is really quite a simple program but there are some points
- which need to be mentioned.
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- Before you get started:
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- Inside the application directory there is a file called 'ConfigFile'.
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- You can look inside the application directory holding down shift
- and double clicking on !MathQuiz, if you didn't already know.
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- The file might read something like this:
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- 8 | Maximum Time Limit in seconds
- 10 | Number of Tries
- 12 | Highest Possible Number
- Nobody
- 0 | The highest scorers name goes above and score here
- 1 | This is the sound option ON or OFF
- 1 | Selects whether to save the score or not 0=no save 1=save
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- Line 1 is the maximum time in seconds the computer will wait for
- the player to answer, if the player does not answer in this time the
- computer will go to the next question.
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- If you want the player to have an indefinite amount of time put in a
- bizarre figure (ie. 20000). This will give the appearance that the
- user has all the time in the world BUT on the 20,000th second the
- computer will then go on the next question.
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- Line 2 dictates how many tries before the completion of the game.
- This of course can be determined by you.
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- Line 3 is the highest possible number, in other words the computer
- will pick a number between 1 and the highest possible number. Be
- careful if you intend to do any work with division. If this number is
- below twenty the computer will find it very difficult to choose two
- unique numbers which will result in a whole positive number, and
- after 5000 tries may ask for something odd like 8÷3 which of course
- will never be right as you are not allowed to enter decimals.
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- Line 4 is the name of the last highest scorer, to reset this to
- something descriptive like 'nobody'
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- Line 5 is the highest score to date, to reset this alter this figure to
- zero.
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- Line 6 Is to force the beep to on or off
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- Line 7 Is to force the save score routine to on or off. Those with
- secure systems will not be able to save the score or they will receive
- a fatal error Drive Protected. Therefore they need to disable this
- save routine.
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- When the game starts:
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- Click on the program icon on the icon bar with either the select or
- the adjust button.
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- Choose which option +, -, X, or ÷, you wish to practice or have the
- users practice.
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- The player of the game inserts their name by clicking in the red box.
- This will 'claim the caret'. It is not RISC-OS standard to claim the
- caret before the user chooses.
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- At this point you can press RETURN or click on OK with the
- mouse.
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- The quiz section the computer will choose two random number run
- them through the sum and wait for the user to respond to the query.
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- If the answer is right they will get the 'happy' picture if it is 'wrong'
- they will get the 'doom and gloom' picture.
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- If the time-out occurs before they press the RETURN key, the
- computer will read what they typed so far giving the user one last
- chance. If the answer is right they will get the 'happy' picture if it is
- 'wrong' they will get the 'doom and gloom' picture.
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- The computer will allow only 0-9, the computer will disregard all
- other symbols including the dash and fullstop for minus and
- decimal points.
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- It will display the number of tries left and the number of right
- answers so far.
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- You are not advised to close the window during the game.
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- You click OK or press return to inform the computer that this is
- your guess.
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- When you finish
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- The score box window is fairly self explanatory. You can either
- play again or quit. You may also quit from the icon bar or the task
- window as usual.
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- I am very approachable. I will take gladly any comments or ideas
- regarding the program.
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- It was created by a teacher, programmed by a programmer, and the
- art by an artist, so I hope it meets with your approval.
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- Sincerely,
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- Mike Smith
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