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Maths Drill (AMI) (Europe) (16bap Unofficial)
 
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Categories: Audio.


Dump(s)
Section: Trusted Dump
Region: World
Dump date: 2023-09-08
Release date: 2014-08-11
Dumper: Roareye
Project: The 16-bit Audiophile Project
Link 1: https://16bap.theclassicgamer.net/
Original format: Default
Datter: Intothisworld
Comment 1:
Thanks. Welcome to the Maths Drill. Make your choice.

A poorly designed and little known Public Domain title, designed to teach children mathematics came with unintended humour value based on the fact that the Amiga would use the program “Say” to give you encouragement. If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be berated by Stephen Hawkins for not knowing 2+2, this is the game for you.

The graphics were one of the game’s horrid downfalls – luminous colours (akin to the original Microsoft Paint’s default palette) would alternate in horrific combinations. Just try to read the luminous orange font over a bright lime green background. Eye pain was all over this game, often making you fail a sum because it was difficult to read the text on the screen.

One thing that genuinely impressed me as a child with this game (Outside of laughing at the ridiculous voice) was the strong recreation of popular 80s song “Everlasting Love” and Sandra – a track which only played during the intro sequence. In reality the game should have simplified it’s colour choices, removed the silly voice and added more of this stuff – it would have made for a better game.
Comment 2:
Strangely, the excellent lemonamiga.com website doesn’t list this in their database, but it is likely due to the underground freeware release rather than being released by a mainstream publisher. Either way this makes anything regarding this title an exclusive to 16 Bit Audiophile Project.

Since this release has only got one actual piece of music, I have included all the voices of the Amiga in three files. Firstly the introductory speech (Quoted at the top of this page), secondly all of the Congratulations speeches, and lastly all of the Disappointed speeches. Hopefully they’ll give you a small chuckle.

Tracklist:
1. “Everlasting Love” by Sandra
2. Welcome To The Maths Drill
3. Correct Answers
4. Wrong Answers

[Note: This release was only ever made available in 96/24 quality. No CD or MP3-quality downloads were ever posted.]
5 file(s)
Format: Default
File:
01 Everlasting Love.flac
   Size: 15700942
   CRC32: 7b3c433d 
   MD5: 7b31f1ed4c4427bd24cff7f93169c182
   SHA-1: b85f74d93f87fbab54477b32232d3b06a08cf0bc
File:
02 Welcome to the Maths Drill.flac
   Size: 899272
   CRC32: 24a8503d 
   MD5: 46e523ed6514994441527d1fa5bb774f
   SHA-1: 48e62d6f150c83d9f5909a6752bb3dd0d5b86b6c
File:
03 Correct Answers.flac
   Size: 4394753
   CRC32: 86fc36c5 
   MD5: 23709bea6b62808f9ab7a161035e72b7
   SHA-1: 4d51d3800a39660006d82c7933ac84ccd5e246bb
File:
04 Wrong Answers.flac
   Size: 2585443
   CRC32: da7c0e57 
   MD5: ee272034d4377faf29804dca1edc20bd
   SHA-1: 118810fb12cf6c619f3e616c402a80eecba556dc
File:
mathsdrill-amigacover.png
   Size: 88955
   CRC32: c199b98a 
   MD5: a583e7aadeabfa920e955b22fe81de4b
   SHA-1: c6c136ffa6bbcd38702f677acc28ab6c5041ee6c
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