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Has the (World of Spectrum) download linked to in the article really been verified as "legal" or is it just "grey-area legal" like most online tapes? Some speccy games have been "released" by their copyright holders and are therefore legal but I didn't think Skool Daze was one of them. --ledow 00:36, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that World of Spectrum only hosts legal downloads. Tim 16:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not true. Except in a few cases, where the copyright holder could be found (not always the original author!), any download is hosted unless and until it has been specifically denied (e.g. games by Code Masters). 86.142.246.183 07:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added the link (and created the article) I added it because i was sure that WOS asks the copyright holders and/or the game's creators for permission Doc Strange 20:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WOS's policy is to actively contact copyright holders requesting permission to make their IP available for download. If the request is denied then the IP is removed from availablity. --Zagrebo 11:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

10000 lines[edit]

In the Punishments section, it says:

"It's possible for the player to knock down Mr Wacker whenever he gets close and thus continue playing for a theoretically infinite amount of time after reaching 10000 lines, although it would be nearly impossible to achieve any game objectives in this condition."

You can't knock Mr Wacker down while he's running after you, but you can knock him down while he's delivering the Game Over message. However, that ability doesn't make it possible to continue playing for an infinite amount of time after reaching 10000 lines. I wonder whether the original author of these lines was confusing Skool Daze with Back to Skool, where it is possible to knock Mr Wacker over when he's running after you, scoot past him before he has a chance to get up and deliver the Game Over message, and therefore prolong the "chase" (and the game) indefinitely.

Then:

"It's also possible for Mr Wacker to be knocked down by another character while delivering the Game Over message, in which case the message pauses until he recovers; this could potentially lead to a loop, but this is exceptionally rare."

What kind of "loop" was the author referring to?

Phygment (talk) 19:53, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name spelling edit revert[edit]

I don't want to start an edit war over something as trivial as the spelling of a character's name; however, I've had my spelling correction reverted so that we're now left again with the incorrect "Boy Wander" as the name for one of the characters. The correct name is "Boy Wonder". This is certainly the case on the Commodore 64 version. Can anyone else confirm that this is also the case on other formats? Here's a link to a screen grab from the C64 version of the game.

https://imgur.com/a/GMh2jjn

As you can see, the uppercase As appearing on this page look nothing like the second letter in the last part of the name of the character.

He's also called "Boy Wonder" in the reboot version of the game on Steam "Reskooled". Mandurahmike (talk) 13:18, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Doing a bit of research it seems like it's "Boy Wander" on the Spectrum. I guess we should edit the article to reflect these differences.Mandurahmike (talk) 13:23, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]