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Is it possible that in the routine "scadd" (Chapter 8) ycoord and xcoord have been accidentally exchanged in the code ?

Yes, that's the way I have always written games.  X is the distance from the top of the screen, Y is the distance from the left edge.  I usually put comments in to warn people that's how my routines work