10DEFFNS="SCRABLE" 12REM Line 10 is neat! To save the pr ogram, type in SAVE FNS and it saves it to disc with the name given in quotes. T hanks to Jon (Ed). 13 14REM A small program to choose 7 ran dom letters for 4 players at scrabble. 15 19 20MODE7 21REM I find that putting in the mode like this is a neat way of getting the p rogram to clear a lot of things in the c omputer. Don't know why! 22 23REM I guess MODE 7 is kind of basic ! 24REM "SCRABBLE" 25 26REM The scrabble bag has 100 letter s in it. There are 26 letters in the alp habet and a blank (#) makes 27. Each let ter in the alphabet has its own score so 27 scores as well. 27 28REM See lines 600-610 for letters a nd scores. 29 30REM Line 40 sets aside space for th e letters,numbers of letters and scores 31 32REM Does DIM mean the computer is s o dim that it has to be TOLD to set the space aside?! 33 34REM Or is it that they have been ki nd and given us dim humans a basic code word to do it?!! 39 40DIMletter$(100),number(27),score(27 ) 41 43 44REM Now we can make 3 numbered list s in this space. 45 46REM To do this we can use a variabl e 1 to 100 and 1 to 27.FOR X=- TO - seem s the best way 49 50FORX=1TO100:READletter$(X):NEXT 52FORX=1TO27:READnumber(X),score(X):N EXT 53 54REM Lines 60 to 100 use a procedure 4 times to choose 7 letters for each pl ayer 55 56REPEAT 59 60FORP=1TO4 70PROCchoose7 100NEXT 110PRINTTAB(2,18)"Press any key to go again. Escape to exit. LIST CTRLN RET URN to list program and read it." 120IF GET 130UNTIL FALSE 199 200DEFPROCchoose7 210FORX=1TO7 220R=RND(100) 230N=FNn(ASCletter$(R)) 234IFnumber(N)=0GOTO220 240PRINTTAB(X*3,P*4)letter$(R) 250number(N)=number(N)-1 260NEXT 290ENDPROC 299 330REMthe procedure above uses a loop of 7 to get 7 letters for the player lin es 210 - 260 331 332REM puts a random number between 1 and 100 into R line 220 333 334 REMturns it into a number from 1 t o 27 at line 230 see FNn() 335 336REMchecks to see if this letter is in the bag line 234 337 338REM if not sends you back to random R again to get another one 339 340REMprints the letter on screen 341 342REMtakes one away from number(N) in the list holding the numbers of each le tter. E.G. There are 9 A,s. number(1)=9. 9-1=8. Now number(1) will be 8. and so o n. 599 600DATAA,A,A,A,A,A,A,A,A,B,B,C,C,D,D,D ,D,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,F,F,G,G,G,H,H ,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,J,K,L,L,L,L,M,M,N,N,N ,N,N,N,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,P,P,Q,R,R,R,R,R,R ,S,S,S,S,T,T,T,T,T,T,U,U,U,U,V,V,W,W,X,Y ,Y,Z,#,# 610DATA9,1,2,3,2,3,4,2,12,1,2,4,3,2,2, 4,9,1,1,8,1,5,4,1,2,3,6,1,8,1,2,3,1,10,6 ,1,4,1,6,1,4,1,2,4,2,4,1,8,2,4,1,10,2,0 619 620REM if you look at the DATA you can see the 100 letters in line 600 621 622REM line 610 has the number of (A's ) and its score value, then the number o f B's and its score value etc etc to Z a nd the # which come last. 699 700DEFFNn(N):IFN>64N=N-64 710IFN=35N=27 720=N 749 750REM N=ASCletter$(R) this means that it converts the letter taken out of the bag into its ASC value A=65, B=66 etc. and puts this number into N. 751 752REMthe FNn then first takes away 64 so that we have the numbers 1 to 26 for the letters of the alphabet 753 754REMthen second, looks to see if th e blank (#) has been chosen (ASC 35) if so changes it into 27 to fit in the numb ered list.