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Acornsoft also published and distributed a range of educational software developed by ASK ( Applied Systems Knowledge ) that were widely used in schools running BBC Micros.

These included Podd ( find out which actions a red blobby character can perform ( e. g. jump, smile, dance ), Squeeze ( a two player strategy game of squeezing shapes onto a board ) and Cranky ( solve maths problems to repair a living calculator ).

These titles were part of the Acornsoft catalogue but used a different code ( XBE ??

-all other Acornsoft titles began with S so the Education range on BBC Micro cassettes would be SBE ??).

They ran on both the BBC Micro Model B and Acorn Electron.