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Trivia |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?