REVIEW BY JIM DUFFY OF STLAUG

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SCHOOL DAZE

Review by

Jim Duffy


Wizard's Lair Software has come out with another fine        
program called School Daze.This is the first math learning   
program I have seen that is not just user friendly but also  
is fun to use with all of the different graphic features     
included in this program.

All you have to do to get things going is to put the disk or 
DDP in and pull the reset.Then after a nice title screen and 
some fine music you will see a multi-colored menu with the   
following Smartkey numbers:

I=MATH

II=MATH CLIMBER

III=READ INSTRUCTIONS 

IV=ADAM SUPPORT

V=RESET ADAM

Every area you go into is Smartkey driven and easy to get in 
and out of.

By selecting Smartkey I you go to the Math menu where you    
can select I=ADD,II=SUBTRACT,III=MULTIPLY,IV=DIVIDE or       
V=ESCAPE.Within each of these areas the Math table can be    
increased by 1 up to and including 12.This screen looks very 
nice with a report card on the left and with a right answer  
you get a series of smiling faces and with the wrong answer  
you get frowning faces.You can also change screen colors     
upon being asked at the beginning of the game.

Selecting Smartkey II takes you to the MATH CLIMBER game     
where the object of the game is to climb 16 steps of a       
ladder and you do this by  giving 16 correct answers to      
random math problems that appear on the screen in a window   
of the wall the ladder is on.For each incorrect answer the   
climber comes down a step and if you miss five answers you   
lose.You are also shown the high score,current score,number  
of right and wrong answers and the percentage of correct     
answers.MATH CLIMBER really makes learning math fun.

Smartkey III of the main menu gives you a nice set of        
instructions one screenfull at a time with easy to read bold 
fonts.

Pressing Smartkey IV from the main menu takes you to the     
Adam Support area of this program.This is a very good        
feature and one that is seldom seen in the world of          
Adam.Here you are given the names, addresses, telephone      
numbers, and type of groups (AUG,Vendor or Developer) that   
deal with the Adam and you can either read them or print     
them out on an Adam or a Dot Matrix printer buy pressing a   
Smartkey.I counted at least 60 different Adam groups,vendors 
or developers on this list.

With Smartkey V on the main menu you have to be careful      
because it does just what it says which is Reset Adam.

The developer of this program gives Sol Swift,Power          
Paint,Sprite Power, Font Power and Super Basic Plus credit   
for making the program easier to develope.And if Wizard's    
Lair Sofware continues to develope new programs for the Adam 
as good as this one,I can see nothing but good happening in  
the world of Adam.


RATING-A+



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