The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
Walkthrough by Alex Dijkstra for the c64
Hint: to look at your current score type M B504 in the machine code monitor. You start with 40% (28
in hex value).
The order of events in each part may be different but if you use below answers you should get the
maximum score.
Part 1
*Woke up with tongue ache
-Keep quiet about it
*Grandma tells tongue ache could be a symptom of something deadly serious
-put a brave face on things
*The spot on my chin is getting bigger.
-Put Savlon on the spot
*The spot is a boil
-Try to ignore the spot
*Geography today I sit next to Pandora for a whole hour.
-Lend Pandora my blue felt-tip pen
*A very nice man called brother Ludovic has just called at the house and spoken to a great length
about the meaning of life.
-Ask directory enquiries about the Purple people
*Toy with the idea of shaving my head
-Decide not to
*Considered visiting Brother Ludovic
-Decide against it
*Bump into Pandora
-Ask if she gets cheap yoghurt
*I am feeling rebellious, so I will wear red socks to school tomorrow
-Put on the red socks
*Miss sproxton spotted my red socks in assembly!
-Tell my father
*I tell my father
-Stay at home for the rest of the day
*We need a dramatic gesture of solidarity
-Suggest we al wear red socks
*Nigel has asked me to a disco at the youth club tonight
-Invite Pandora to the disco
*She is already invited by four other boys
-Investigate the disco
*Nigel wants to put a safety pin through his ear
-Help Pandora to stop him
*So now I know where Pandora lives!
-Find out where she is going
*Got up
-Write a poem about Pandora's horse
*Brought my poem to school
-Show the poem to Nigel
*Perhaps I will show it round the class
-Show the poem to my classmates after school
*Nigel and Barry want me to put the poem on the teachers' table
-Refuse
*My mother started making a chart dividing all the housework into three.
-Agree with my mother's idea
*Got up. Looked at the chart of jobs on the wall
-Start doing them
*Woke up this morning to find my face covered in huge red spots
-Ring grandma for help
*My mother wants to go out in thje rain to get him a vitamin C drink
-Bravely venture out into the rain
*At last I find the flu medicines
-Choose a cheap powder called Lemon-aid
*All guests must dress in black from head to toe
-Ask my mother to buy me a black outfit
*My mother refuses
-Buy a tin of black dye
*Come back to find clothes in machine have turned dark pink
-Run back to the shop to buy another tin of black dye
*Go to see Bert Baxter after tea
-Knock again
*A dog starts growling and jumping up at the letterbox
-Write a note and push it through the door
*Thought about Bert Baxter
-Persuade Nigel to go
* Nigel is very happy visisting Bert but he doesn't think it's fair on me
-Tell Nigel I'd rather look after playgroup kids
*Nigel says that visiting Bert does not leave him long enough for his hobbies
-Go to Bert Baxter's house
---score 74 middling prodigy---
Part 2
*I have decided to decorate my room
-Make up my mind to wallpaper the room
*I don't know why people think this is difficult
-Choose bamboo pattern paper
*I told my father about training animals and now he wants me to try training the dog!!!
-Explain you can't teach an old dog new tricks
*I wonder if I should reward the dog?
-Get some dog biscuits
*My father told Bert Baxter that I had forgotten about traning the dog
-Train it to sit
*Had a postcard from my mother
-Ask my father if I can go
*I asked my father if I can go
-Write a letter asking my mother to send eleven pounds eighty
*My mother wants to show me Sheffield
-Go shopping
*Lucas got back early and cooked dinner
-Add lots of salt while he is not looking
*Lucas has bought me a penknife
-Accept the penknife
*Lucas and my mother are driving out into the countryside this afternoon
-Go with them
*Barry Kent said I would have to give him my dinner money
-Tell scruton about Barry Kent
*The people at 65 Elm Tree Avenue have a ferocious Alsatian
-Lure the dog away
*Mr Cherry gave me hundreds of newspapaer bingo cards to deliver with the papers
-Push all the cards through one letter-box
*I must do something to find Clint the dog
-Ask Barry Kent about the dog
*Barry Kent must have the dog
-Tell Barry Kent that I know he has Clint
*I was seroiusly menaced at school today
-Ask my father
*Nigel has arranged a blind date for me with Sharon Bott
-Borrow Nigel's disco skates
*I practice skating on the pavement
-Decide to practice first thing tomorrow
*Sharon Bott wil expect a gift
-Buy a box of chocolates
*What clothes should I wear
-Ring Nigel and ask him what youths waer at roller skating rinks
*What clothes should I wear
-Choose the khaki sweater and green elephant cords
*Thought about writingt to thank Grace Pool
-Write to thank her for the present
*Grace Pool wants to visit
-Phone Auntie Susan
*I have formed a club for non-smokers at school
-Visit headmaster Scruton
*Second meeting of SIT
-Get up a petition against smoking.
*Wake up with a sore throat
-Attract attention by banging on the floor with my shoe
*Father shouts stop that bloody banging
-Stagger downstairs
*Pandora sits by my bed reading to me
-Ask her to stop
---score 103 knockout intellectual---
Part 3
*My father asked me who I would prefer to live with him or my mother
-Say both
*He told me he has made friends with Doreen Slater
-Ring my grandma
*Someone is knocking at the front door
-Go to the door
*I see a brown skirt through the letterbox
-Look through the front room window
*A shabbily-dressed woman is struggling with a bundle of leaflets
-Tiptoe quietly away
*Someone is knocking at the front door
-Go to the door
*I can see two grey shapes
-Look out of the front room window
*Two official-looking men in smart suits are standing on the doorstep.
-Ask who they are through the letterbox
*I do not want to do this
-Say that I am an agnostic atheist.
*Then they start the hard sell
-Try to convert them to atheism
*Doreen is living with us
-Make friends with the stick insect
*My father has decided to go to somerset
-Decide to go to Somerset
*Last night in Leicester
-Say goodbye to Pandora
*Channel Vista Caravan Park, Brean, Somerset
-Phone Pandora, reversed charges
*Rains until lunch. Have a Somerset pasty.
-Look after Maxwell on the beach
*Went to Exmoor
-Phone Pandora normally
*Heat wave
-Go hiking in the Mendips with my father
*Another trip in the car
-Suggest we go to Glastonbury
*Grandma found Maxwell's dummy in my father's bed
-Lie and say the dog must have brought it in
*My nylon sleeping bag is a bit yukky
-Pack it anyway
*No one brought a tin-opener
-Use a table knife
*Rick lemon is organising a ten-mile hike
-Climb a nearby hill instead
*Everyone is going mountain climbing
-Go along and watch
*Someone is knocking at the front door
-Look tot he front room window
*I see a middle-aged man in scruffy overalls, carrying a bucket
-Ask who he is through the letterbox
*I will have to decide about the window-cleaning
-Say I don't want to pay any money
*The cleaner goes on his way
-Clean the windows
*Brainbox Henderson can't use his laser printer properly
-Agree to help
*I agree to help
-Phone Micro Periphery, who sold the printer
*The printer manual has still not arrived
-Write to Micro Periphery
---score 133 knockout intellectual---
Part 4
*I am loved by two woman
-reply to V.L.T. in the affirmative
*Pandora say I must choose between her and Barbara
-Choose Pandora
*The Sunshine people left me some religious leaflets
-Read the Sunshine people leaflets
*Read the Sunshibe personality profile
-Throw it away
*Saw the Sunshine people in the main shopping centre
-Pass by on the other side
*Pandora is auditioning today
-Audition to
*I repeatedly asked the costume mistress to tighten the bark but she refused
-Continue in the play
*Pandora suggested that instead of writing the whole thing myself , I invite contributions
-Agree reluctantly
*I'm thinking of writing an expose about Barry KEnt for the Voice of Youth
-Advertise it on the cover but leave all the details for a later issue
*We have a wildcat strike!
-Say please
*Mrs Claricoates smiles but insists that she really doesn't have enough time.
-Offer on behalve of the editorial team, to duplicate copies ourselves
*Mrs Claricoates says that she alone knows how to work the wretched thing
-Briobe Mrs Claricoates with the offer of a written credit
*She is not interested
-Look for someone else who can use the duplicator
*I will have to get five hundres copies of the Voice of Youth printed myself
-Visit A&M Litho, a small local printer
*I visit A&M Litho
-Ask Pandora's father to use the firm's photocopier
*Pandora is fed up with going out with me
-Ask my mother for advice
*I ask my mother for advice
-Ask my father how to manage woman
*I ask my father how to manage woman
-Tell Bert my problem
*Queenie said play hard to get, Adrian
-Take Queenie's advice
*Go to Woolworth's to buy Pandora's present, Chanel No 5
-Buy her an underarm deodorant
*Go out carol singing with Pandora
-head for the Black Bull
*I went up to the bathroom and found my mother crying and running the turkey under the hot tap
-Say put the shower attachment inside and leave the tap running for an hour
*Grandma Sugden gives me a book called Bible stories for boys
-Say thank you and wear a false smile
---score 156 knockout intellectual---
