— en —— = once — om —— EAS ms ma Soo a nee CD =a rear =o a =o on =sme rs nese ee Le Po CONTENTS, Gulse to the Program ate in Stee tor You? Going Stared (Ape Computer) (Gting Started (8M oF Tandy Computer) CCheosing a Game ‘The One Shop Game Wehoutthe Clock ‘The One Shop Game Wan the Clock The Al Shope Game ‘Tpstor Playing ne Al Shops Game Keys o Know Guid to the Advanced Math Shops Tha Sosa Site ‘The Cheese Shop The Carpet Store The Secury Store Tha Pary Shop The Candy Sire Tha Mache Shop The Pe Shop Theos Sere The Equation Shop GUIDE TO THE PROGRAM What's in Store for You? ‘The shops in the Advanced Math Shop™ mall are ata stancstil. The shop owmers need help! The owner ofthe plo shop is hungy for an assistant to cut pes. The soda store ‘owner is al shook up because no one knows the number ‘of carons to load onto the soda tuck In fac ll 10 shop ‘owners ar in need of an astounding algebra assistant ke you! Put your math sits to work as you soWve some tricky ‘roblems, and lend ahand to help keep each Advanced Math Shop in business, ‘Where does the work begin? You can start by packing cartons ‘and cases of soda inthe oda store. Or maybe you'd pretar 19 weigh cheese in tho cheese shop or sell carpetin tne carpet Store I's your choice. You can ride the elevator and explore the shops onthe second and third Noors wire the work harder. Try your hand at cubing block of le, packing jelly ‘beans, and even solving equations, ‘Youll receive plenty of onthe job training at each shop. Some shops wil ave easy work for you todo, Other shops wil ve you more dificult tasks. In each shop, the chalenge wil Increase as your skis improve. Workin an Advanced Math Shop can be scheduled as you [kon the One Shop game, you may work as long a you Tk, serving as many customers as you please. Or you can work against he clock and try to serve as many customers aa you can during a simuated shopping day Wen youve gained some experiance in each Advanced ‘Matron byte Al Shope guna Customers wt Se ing for your help at al 10 shops. You rely have to keep moving! Wi good work, you ay even eam the Honor of Buting your name on th ist of Top Ten Employee! Wat a ‘way launch your career! Getting Started (Apple Computer) Equipment You Will Need ‘Apple Pls (64K), lo, lo, oF IGS + One disk crive + Amonitor or TV Loading Advanced Math Shop into your Apple Computer: |. Inset the Advanced Math Shop disk, label facing up, inthe ive, ang cose the crve door “Turn on the monitor or TV and the computer. 2 ‘8. Tho dsk ive wil whit as Advanced Math Shop loads. D> not remove the disk while the eves power ight ison 1. Follow the instructions onthe sergon to remove the disk. ‘Then tum Rover to Side 2 (abel facing down), eineer and press Retun. The program wil load into your computer. NOTE: Inthe 3.5:inch version of Advanced Math Shop the ‘entire program is on one sige ofthe ask. you are using this version, skp Stop 4 Getting Started (IBM or Tandy Computer) Equipment You Will Need ‘An IBM PC wih color graphics card, PC, Tandy 1000, or 100% compatibie computer with 256K of memory A double-sided disk crive +A monitor of TV * ADOS disk (version 2.0 or higher) Installing DOS on the Advanced Math Sbop Disk Betore you use the Advanced Math Shop disk, you want to ‘acd a copy of MS-DOS to Iso that you can start up ‘Math Shop with the program oisk alone. This procedure is. Calle inaaling™ DOS. To install OOS onto your Advanced ‘itr Shop dk olow the stops below. Youll only have to go through these siaps once. Afior you've installed DOS onto Yyour program disk, you wil not need your DOS disk when Working with Advanced Math Shop. NOTE: you are using @ PO}, ort you ae using certain Worsions of DOS, you wi not be able fe instal DOS on your [Ravanced Math Shep ask. To [oad Advanced Math Shop, fist load DOS into your computor. Then, atthe A> prompt, insert the Advanced Math Shop olsk ype Algebra, and press Enter. Instaling DOS on isk: 1. Make sure your compute is tuned of 2. Tum on your monitor. 3. insert he DOS dick that came with your computer nto Drive A. (Make sure that ts DOS 20 or higher) 4, Tur on the computer. Prompts wil appear on the screen tolling you to enter te date andthe me. Press Enter twice to ship hese requests or etor the date and te time ang press Entor afer each entry. Whon tie A> prompt appoars ‘your sereen you are ready to install DOS. 5. Ifyou have two disk dives: + Leave he DOS disk in crive A and inset the Advanced ‘Matn'Shop disk in Drive B. + Type BNSTALL, Pross Entor. you have one esk dive: + Type BIINSTALL, Pross Entor. + lemave your DOS disk from the disk ve and insert ‘he Avatoed Math Shop dak. + Press any key to continue. 6. Read the message that appears on your screen and press ‘any key to continue, it you have one disk dive, you wil be asked to swith csks several times. Pace the OOS disk in the drive when you are ‘asked 0 insort the dskoto for Orve A. Place the Advanced Mat Shopalsk nthe ave when you are askod Yo ineert te ‘iskette for Drive B. Make sure you wat untl he crve's ower ight is of before removing a ask 7. Attor you have installed DOS on the ask, the A> prompt wi ‘appear on your sereen. The Advancod hiath Shop isk is now ready for use. Loading Advanced Matb Shop into Your IBM Computer Follow those stops: 1. Insont the Advanced Math Shop disk, label facing up nto {he ove, and close the crve done 2. Tum on the monitor or TV and the computer. 3. The disk ve wil whit as Advanced Math Shop loads into the computor. Do not remove the sk whe the drive's ‘ower Fghtis on, ‘Alter the program has loaded, you wil see the Advanced Math ‘Shop mal on the screen tha program does not load may. ‘mean that you are using a type of OOS that cannot be Installed on your Advanced Math Shop disk To load ‘Advanced Math Shop without istaling DOS, follow the instuctons in tho nate on page 6. Choosing a Game Alter the program has loaded, the Advanced Math Shop mall \wal appear onthe Screen. Vou ar the ite figure that appears atthe lower comer ofthe mall This message wil appear at the Bottom ofthe screen: "To open one sop ata me, press (©: Te open allot he shops, press A” Follow these steps to choose a game: ‘One Shop Game Press © to play the One Shop game. The program wil ask, "Do you want to work against be clock? YIN. Press N for No if you want to have unlimited time to work in ‘any shop inthe mal Press ¥ for Yes if you want to test yourself to see how many ‘customers you can serve during a rine-to-fve shopping day. All Shops Game “Type Ato play the Al Shops game. inthis game customers ‘wl be ned up in all shops, waling to be served. As soon as {ou press A, the game wil bogin andthe program willbe eeping track of how quicky you serve customers. For either the One Shop or All Shops game, walk oie the ‘levator tothe shop of your choice. Press the Space Barto go Inside. Now you're roady to bogin serving customers, Once, insige the shop type Ito got instructions, or ype Sto start, working, Read the sections that follow to leam about the ciferent ‘Advanced Math Shop games and how to switch between ‘rom: ‘The One Shop Game Without the Clock Ifyou are new to Advanced Math Shop sta by choosing the ‘he Shop game witout te clock. Ins game you can go into any shep you want and serve customers at Your own pace. The game wil endwhen you prs Esc to leave the Shop. Serving Customers Wen you enter the shop, youl so Cstmors Saved at ‘screen. This wil keep Wack of te numberof {nts game, you don't nood to hurry o serve customers. Customers wil wat patlenty untl you corey fil tat orders. 'Wyou enter an incortoct answer, a helpful message ‘appoar atthe batom ofthe screen. Read the message, ook at your mistake caretuly, and then ty to correct tin your now answer. Entering educated guesses or estimates of the lanswer is a good way to learn about solving the probloms. you get stumped, ater tothe examples in this manual or [sctonal information about each shep. ‘Alto youve corectly served a custome, you'l move onto the ext one. You can continue working untl you want gut To ui, press Esco leave the shop and rtm tthe male You ‘can now enter a diferont shop and serve customers, of ‘choose to pay ailerent game, The One Shop Game With the Clock This game is played tho same way as the One Shop game, without he lock except hat when you enter ashep you wil have atime imi ir serving each customer. The goalie ‘s01ve as many customers as you can during a ne tosve shopping day. At the top of te soon, youl see a number labotea “Customers Served which keeps ack ot your soar, ‘and the clock, which hoops rack of the te. You wil work rom 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. You notice thatthe ‘Pinutes tick away very quick. (The actua time rom 9:00 0 ‘500 is approximatly five minutos) Once 5:00 commas around, the shop automaticaly closes and your score wil appear on the screen. You'll got one point fr each customer youve ‘Served suring the game. Mako anote ofthis score and ty to work even faster 10 sorve more customers the next ime you Workin that shop, ‘The All Shops Game Inthe Al Shops game, you will serve as many customers as you can inal 0 shops. \Whien you begin the game, you'l notice that there are Customers wating tobe served in many ofthe shops Al he shops are open for business in the Al Shops game ad more Customers wil ative as you work: As everyone knows, Customers don' tka to wat in ines, especcly in crowed shops, Youll have to work as quickly as you Gan because, when there are 10 customers ina shop, te customers ei {0 impatient and al 10 wil leave, The gamo wil end wien So customers have i the mal