Skool Daze Trivia
The importance of little boy no. 11

In demo mode, ERIC bases his every move on where little boy no. 11 is and what he's doing (see the routine at 62938). One corollary of this important role is that little boy no. 11 is in all of ERIC's classes (if he weren't, ERIC would be guilty of truancy in demo mode). In fact, little boy no. 11 is the only character besides EINSTEIN who joins ERIC for every class.

Teachers and classrooms

MR WACKER is the only teacher who teaches ERIC in all four classrooms. See his personal timetable.

MR ROCKITT never teaches in the Map Room. See his personal timetable.

MR WITHIT never teaches ERIC in the Reading Room or the Exam Room, but does teach other kids in those rooms. See his personal timetable.

MR CREAK never teaches in the Map Room or the Exam Room. See his personal timetable.

Hands up!

The graphic data contains unused sprites of the main kids sitting down with a hand raised. See animatory states 4 (ERIC), 20 (EINSTEIN), 36 (ANGELFACE), and 52 (BOY WANDER). Were these used while the game was in development? We'll probably never know.

Board-wiping WANDER

The board-wiping routine at 29148 checks whether BOY WANDER (as opposed to a teacher) is wiping the board, and executes a different code path accordingly. However, BOY WANDER never makes use of this ability in the game that was released. Did he use it while the game was in development? Again, we'll probably never know.

Save the duster

There are code remnants in the board-wiping routine at 29148 that make a teacher skip wiping the blackboard if it's already clean. The POKEs to re-enable this code are:

POKE 29151,79: POKE 29152,6

However, the code that would make the teacher walk to the middle of the blackboard after deciding not to wipe it is missing, so if you try these POKEs, expect to see some oddness during lessons where the board starts off clean.

WACKER loves EINSTEIN's tales

MR WACKER never gives EINSTEIN lines for telling tales (see 31968). Is WACKER merely gullible, a firm believer in the virtue of snitching, or both?

WACKER's letter-blindness

The first letter of the safe combination code (MR WACKER's) is always in the range A-O (see 63573). Did WACKER never learn the alphabet from P to Z when he was at skool?

WHICH BATTLE OCCURRED IN 1800?

Among the 21 battle dates that comprise MR CREAK's history curriculum, 1800 makes no appearance. But perhaps it was not always so: see 58600. We can only speculate which battle from that year EINSTEIN would have chosen for his answer.

WITHIT edited

There is evidence that MR WITHIT used to be rather more verbose with his blackboard scribblings, but was edited before the game was released. See 'MANCHESTER MONSOONS' at 59392, which looks as if it may once have been 'MONSOONS OF MANCHESTER'. Likewise, 'THE PEAKS OF PERU' at 59456 may once have been expressed less tersely (or been about something other than PEAKS). Finally, which rain-forest other than Glasgow's could WITHIT have been writing about at 59488?