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- TYPEFAST
- TYPEING DRILL GAME
-
- Steve Spearman wrote TYPEFAST, one of the better touch-typing drills
- I've seen (and I've written one myself). It's a GAME (not boring drills)
- that's a cross between a touch-typing program and "Space Invaders".
- Words appear in random places on the screen and slowly move down.
- You have to type them correctly to blow them up before they reach the "ground"
- (a line at the bottom of the screen). There are several degrees of difficulty.
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-
- I've enhanced it, so that:
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- - It can run with your own word list, rather than the built-in words.
- Just compile with WORDLIST defined, and it will look for a file
- WORDLIST.H.
-
- - Longer words start higher on screen, to allow more time to type them.
-
- - It runs on MS-DOS PCs. I used Turbo C and PCcurses, though I didn't
- do anything that depends on those choices. It's pretty generic C
- and curses.
-
- - It uses the PC display character set to make prettier missiles and
- explosions than an ordinary ASCII terminal can. (To get these,
- compile with MSDOS defined.)
-
- I post the enhanced game with Steve's permission. He has included no
- copyright, nor have I, though we'd appreciate your leaving the leading
- comments in any further distribution that you do. If you modify it
- further, please add to the "history" portion of those comments.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Dave Tutelman
- 16 Tilton Drive
- Wayside, NJ 07712
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- (201) 922-9576
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