+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ |+------------------------------------------------------------------+| || || || SCRABBLE PROGRAM by Paul Gaze || || || || 30th January 1992 || || || |+------------------------------------------------------------------+| +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ WHAT THE PROGRAM DOES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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.