The game should work on any Acorn RISC machine, and automatically selects
the full height screen 256 colour screen most appropriate for your machine
when it is running, returning to the previous screen mode when finished.
It will take up much of the available memory on a basic 1 megabyte
Archimedes, so try and close down other applications before running the
program if you only have limited memory available.
The game instruction below include those for the full version of the game,
so that you can see the wide range of options that could be available.
On this demo version, the range of options is very limited, and clicking
on the "choice" buttons at the bottom of the screen has no effect, except for
the "Play" and "End" buttons.
This demo version uses the same fixed choice of options every time it plays.
On the full version:
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- you have full control over all the program options
- there are 5 different skill levels available
- you can select from 1 to 3 players
- you can have from 2 up to 10 sums per game
- you can choose a combination of any of the following types of sum:
+ Addition up to 10, 20 or 99
- Subtraction up to 10, 20 or 99
x Multiplication tables (you can select any combination to suit)
To LOAD the program, simply double click on the "!kquizdemo" application.
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To PLAY the game, click on "Play" at the bottom of the screen.
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To QUIT the program, press ESCAPE or click on "End" at the end of a game.
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"Kevin's Quiz" is only one of the three fun educational games in our "TV Fun & Games" pack, and each game features 256 colour graphics, extensive use of digitised speech and detailed animations digitised from live video.
There are three games altogether in the pack:
Game 1: "Weatherman" - Create your own weathermaps with a range of animated
weather symbols, just like the ones on TV. This game helps to
familiarise children with common weather types, as well as points of
the compass, and locations of countries within the U.K.
Game 2: "Kevin's Quiz"- as featured in this demonstration version.
Game 3: "Gnomework"- A TV gardener is relaxing in his garden and getting
Gerald the garden gnome and his friends to find various items and put
them in store (helps children with matching, sorting, classification,