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- IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS ON PLAYING EGA SCRABBLE:
-
- YOU MAY START THIS PROGRAM BY TYPING: EGASCRAB <ENTER>
-
- REMEMBER, THAT THIS DISK HAS CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR SYSTEM IN
- ORDER TO RUN. THE FIRST IS AN EGA MONITOR AND MATCHING VIDEO CARD ARE
- NEEDED, A CGA OR MOST VGA'S WON'T WORK! THE SECOND IS 600K OR MORE OF RAM
- MEMORY AVAILABLE FOR THE GAME TO LOAD AND FUNCTION. THIS DOES NOT
- MEAN 590K, BUT A MINIMUM OF 600K OF RAM IS REALLY NEEDED!
-
- THIS WOULD PRECLUDE HAVING ANY RAM RESIDENT PROGRAMS OR EVEN MOST
- ITEMS CONTAINED IN ORDINARY CONFIG.SYS OR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILES. TO AVOID
- RENAMING THESE FILES AND RE-BOOTING YOUR COMPUTER, WE WOULD SUGGEST IT
- WOULD BE MUCH SIMPLER TO USE YOUR ORIGINAL UNMODIFIED DOS START-UP DISK.
- SIMPLY PUT THE UNMODIFIED (NO CONFIG.SYS OR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILES ON IT) DOS
- DISK IN DRIVE: A AND CLOSE THE DRIVE DOOR. TURN ON AND BOOT UP YOUR
- SYSTEM THIS WAY EVEN IF YOU HAVE A HARD DRIVE.
-
- AFTER DOING THE ABOVE, REMOVE THE DOS DISKETTE AND REPLACE IT WITH YOUR
- SCRABBLE GAME DISK. TYPE THE COMMAND: SCRABBLE AND PUSH <ENTER>.
- FOLLOW THE ON SCREEN PROMPTS AFTER THE GAME LOADS. REMEMBER, IT TAKES A
- WHILE FOR THIS DISK TO LOAD IN MEMORY, SO PLEASE BE PATIENT.
-
- IF AFTER A COUPLE OF MINUTES YOU STILL HAVE A BLANK SCREEN AND THE RED
- LIGHT ON THE DISK DRIVE HAS GONE OUT, YOU CAN ASSUME YOU HAVE ONE OF TWO
- SITUATIONS. EITHER YOU DO NOT HAVE A PROPERLY INSTALLED OR CONFIGURED EGA
- CARD AND MONITOR, OR YOU HAVE INSUFFICIENT MEMORY AVAILABLE. USE THE DOS
- CHKDSK COMMAND TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH RAM MEMORY IS AVAILABLE. REMEMBER,
- A MINIMUM OF 600K IS NEEDED.
-
- ADDITIONAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE MOVEMENT OF THE ON-SCREEN CURSOR!
- As far as I can tell, the program is self explanatory. The only item I need
- to mention is the movement of your playing cursor. The default movement is
- horizontal, from right to left via the cursor keys. Use the space bar to
- toggle this to the vertical direction.
-
- This program currently uses all available memory left after DOS is loaded.
- This is due to the fact the dictionary is loaded into memory. The result of
- this is very fast program operation. I preferred this method to the much slower
- operation using file based dictionary searches. I realize this is a pain in
- the @## for all you who have numerous TSRs loaded. I use them too. My solution
- utilizes a small program that performs a "warm boot" on my machine. Using this,
- I have several batch files (and *.sys files) that I can boot from to put my
- machine into almost any configuration. This makes it fairly painless to
- switch my machine's configuration back and forth. I have included this reboot
- program and some sample batch files.
-
- If you have any questions or comments I can be reached at the following
- BBS:
- Ed Hoppers PC Board
- (713)782-5454
-
- Or I can be reached directly at the following address:
- Vic Rice
- 4026 Bayou Grove Dr.
- Seabrook, Tx 77586
-
-
- At this time I know of no bugs in the program. I would appreciate any bug
- reports so I can take evasive action.
-
- That's it for the documentation. I wrote this program for my own recreation
- and expect no money in return if you happen to enjoy it. (I also won't send
- any back if it arrives in the mail <grin>.)
-
- P.S. Oops, one last item. During play if you enter a word not found in the
- internal dictionary, you will be asked if indeed it is a real word. If you
- answer "YES", the word is added to the file "NEWWORDS.TXT". This is the
- auxiliary dictionary file searched if no match is found in the main
- dictionary. "NEWWORDS.TXT" is a standard ASCII file which you can edit and
- modify to suit your needs.