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Assassins - Ultimate CD Games Collection (1994)(Weird Science)(Track 1 of 2)[!][Amiga-CD32-CDTV][CDD5332].iso
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|| SCRABBLE PROGRAM by Paul Gaze ||
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|| 30th January 1992 ||
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WHAT THE PROGRAM DOES
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This program allows from one to four players to have a game of
scrabble. The part of any or all of these players can be played by the
computer.
RUNNING THE PROGRAM
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Getting the program running is pretty straight forward. From the
workbench click on the SCRABBLE icon and from the CLI type in the word
SCRABBLE.
The first thing you should come to is a panel with two buttons giving
you the option to either play an old game or start a new one. If you
choose to play an old game you will get a file requestor asking you
for the name of a game previously saved to disk.
If you choose to play a new game, you will now come to a panel that
lets you choose how many people are playing, thier names and wether or
not they are played by computer.
The screen is split up into four parts with each part giving
information on one of the players. To change the name of a player you
click on the box on the left and enter the new name. To decide whether
or not a player is in the game and if he is, whether or not he is
played by computer, click on the white box on the right. If you keep
clicking you will find it alternates between COMPUTER, HUMAN and
REMOVED. If it says REMOVED, that player isnt in the game. If it says
COMPUTER or HUMAN then the part of that player will be played by a
computer or a human. Once youre happy with this panel, click on OKAY.
If the part of the first player is not done by the computer you should
now come to a panel which says who is to move. If that person clicks
on okay you will come to the main game screen. If the first player is
the computer the screen will go blank and a message will come up
telling you that the computer player is moving. You will then have to
wait about a minute for it to take its move.
On the main game screen you will find, on the left half of the screen,
the board with the players letters below it. On the right side you
will find, starting from the top, the score of each player with his
score from last go in brackets, the number of letters left, the points
values of each letter, the type of bonuses squares and at the bottom
some gadgets for entering words. To enter a word what you do is click
on the board where you want the word to start with the left mouse
button, then click on the rectangular box in the bottom right hand
corner below the buttons and type in your word. Normally you should
type your word in in lower case but if you want one of the letters to
be represented by a blank you should type it in as a capital. Once
you've done this you click on either 'ACRS' to place the word across
or 'DOWN' to place it down. If the word you put down includes a blank
then the blank will be printed on the board as the letter it
represents in red.
If you want to swap some letters you type in the letters on the bottom
right as before and then click SWAP. If one of the letters you want to
swap is a blank just type it in as any upper case letter. If you want
to pass just click on SWAP while leaving the bottom right box blank.
If you make a mistake then the computer will come up with a message
saying so and you will have to try again. There are some other buttons
here, heres what they do:
SAVE - Saves the game to disk. A requestor will come for you to choose
the name of the file.
LOAD - Loads a game from disk.
QUIT - Ends the game. The score for each player is totalled
and the winner printed.
Unless some one clicks QUIT, the game will end under two
circumstances. (A) All the players pass in a row (B) One of the
players uses all his letters and there arent any more to pick.