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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.
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- 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.
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