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Copyright 1992-1994 by Peter Turnquist. All rights reserved. MasterMind is a trademark of Peter Turnquist. Please see the important LICENSE AGREEMENT below. INTRODUCTION It helps to print README.TXT (about eleven pages), making the instructions visible while you install MasterMind Typing. If DOS has control, you may tap PrintScreen now to record just the directions for printing. We recommend printing via Notepad of the Windows Accessories, because it will paginate. In Notepad, choose File|Open and specify this file as, for example, A:\README.TXT or C:\MMTYPE\README.TXT If neither A: nor C:\MMTYPE is the location of README.TXT, substitute whatever <drive>:\<path> you have provided. With this text on-screen in Notepad, the menu choices are File|Print. When you exit from Notepad or any editor, please do NOT save changes. If you want to print from DOS, a convenient command is, for example, COPY A:\README.TXT PRN or COPY C:\MMTYPE\README.TXT PRN Again, if neither A: nor C:\MMTYPE is the location of README.TXT, substitute whatever <drive>:\<path> you have provided. Please protect your source file(s) before proceeding. If you acquired MasterMind Typing on floppy diskettes, write-protect them. If you acquired the MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP archive(s) electronically, copy to a floppy (and write-protect it) or copy to your usual backup medium. To protect backup floppies from magnetic fields, they should be in steel containers, not plastic or aluminum. A steel desk drawer or file cabinet is fine. MasterMind Typing cuts work to about a quarter of any alternative for learning to touch-type. The magic is MasterMind's sensitive way of adjusting repetition for your progress. It reads your mind. In the advanced phase of version 2.x, MasterMind enables you to learn memorable literature, while you practice typing or for pleasure. Prerequisite resources are: Windows 3.x in standard or enhanced mode 80286 or better processor 2 Mbytes RAM for Win3.1 or 1.5MB for Win3.0 extended (XMS) memory manager such as HIMEM.SYS 1.2 Mbytes free on the hard disk EGA or better display, color preferred mouse (or equivalent, e.g., trackball) You can check your Windows mode from Program Manager by choosing Help|AboutProgramManager. Standard or enhanced mode is all right for MasterMind Typing, but enhanced mode needs 2 Mbytes RAM. Real mode is incompatible. Help|AboutProgramManager also will disclose Free Memory (RAM). With just Windows loaded (before you start MasterMind Typing), Free Memory should be at least 600 Kbytes. For quickness, Windows 3.1 users should install at least 4 Mbytes total RAM. The distribution diskette(s) of MasterMind Typing may be any of: 720K (3.5-inch) 1.44M (3.5-inch) 1.2M (5.25-inch) two 360K (5.25-inch) If you got a diskette that your system cannot read, please contact the supplier. MasterMind Typing takes several forms in distribution as shareware. It also calls on ToolBook, which users may or may not have installed previously. Installation instructions cover the various cases. Please find the instructions that cover your case and ignore the rest. LICENSE AGREEMENT; MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE By your authorized use of MasterMind Typing, you accept a license for a single user on the following terms. If you have an unauthorized copy, you have no license and must destroy the copy promptly to limit your liability for dealing with contraband. Version 1.x is the shareware program distributed for free trial to those who agree to register if the product is helpful. For such trial, you have a revocable license to copy and distribute version 1.x in the manner described below. After trying version 1.x sufficiently to see whether it helps you, you must either register or stop using it. If you register and pay the fee, you get version 2.x including additional features. (Site licenses are available to organizations.) Version 2.x comes with a 60-day guarantee of satisfaction. Version 2.x is not shareware. Except for backup, copying version 2.x would make you liable for infringement of contract, patent and copy rights. You do not own either version of the software, which embodies novel designs and trade secrets. You must not decode, alter or reverse-engineer the software or aid another to do so. Any copy must be complete, including all legal notices. Any effort to imitate the software would breach the license and, besides, probably would violate the copyright and/or the patent. This applies to distribution of version 1.x shareware by both professionals and amateurs. Version 1.x shareware distribution must be either free of charge or within the rules of the Association of Shareware Professionals. Distributable files differ with the means of distribution: archive for electronic distribution or multi-file set for distribution on disks. Contact Peter Turnquist to get the proper archive or file set (no charge) for the distribution intended. It is forbidden to remake an archive or file set, because it probably would impair installation. Version 2.x is not distributable. A catalog of shareware, electronic or otherwise, must describe version 1.x in terms approved by Peter Turnquist. The latest revision of CATALOG.TXT or FILE_ID.DIZ, issued by Peter Turnquist, is an approved description. Subject to regular procedure, the licensor will accept the return of unsatisfactory software within sixty days and will refund the license fee. The licensor has no other liability. There is NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS for use and no liability for consequential damages. Breach of any of its provisions automatically cancels the license. Any dispute between parties is subject to binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. The chosen law is that of the state of Delaware. In case of court action to enforce this agreement or an arbitration award hereunder, the prevailing party shall recover from the other all costs including reasonable attorneys' fees. If you object to any license provision, your sole recourse is to return the unused product immediately for refund. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MasterMind Typing incorporates runtime ToolBook under license from Asymetrix Corp. MM*.EXE incorporates file compression licensed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki. MM*.ZIP file format is compatible with PKUNZIP of PKWare, Inc. MEMORY CONFIGURATION, XMS REQUIRED The Microsoft Windows User's Guide discusses memory configuration in chapter 13 for version 3.0 or chapter 14 for version 3.1. The version 3.0 Guide does not explain, though, that about 384K of your total memory, the portion between 640K and 1 megabyte, is inaccessible to most programs. The system design reserves it for hardware support. For Windows applications, most or all of your configurable memory--that is, above 1 megabyte--must be extended (XMS), not expanded (EMS). XMS is a more efficient way to organize memory. If you have an EMS configuration to help older DOS applications, now is the time to update. MasterMind Typing should have at least 500K of XMS memory to run under Windows standard mode, that is, at least 1.5 Mbytes total memory. To use enhanced mode with a '386 or better processor, you need at least a megabyte of XMS memory, that is, at least 2 Mbytes total. Without XMS memory, MasterMind Typing will not run at all. If you make all the configurable memory XMS, you need to adjust older applications if they have setup parameters that rely on EMS. An older application may slow because only the conventional 640K RAM will be accessible. But the publisher now may have an upgrade version that works with XMS memory and may be a Windows application too. If you have enough memory, it may be possible to configure it as partly EMS and partly XMS to suit all applications. With '386 and better processors, MS-DOS 6.0 can reallocate memory between EMS and XMS dynamically. The method to reconfigure memory varies among computer makers. Typically, one starts a setup program by pressing some combination of keys during bootup. If your hardware manual is unclear, you may need help from whomever set up your system originally. Because XMS memory is a Windows requirement involving other applications and hardware, we cannot advise about memory configuration. For advice about Windows, Microsoft Product Support is (206)637-7098. A disk cache such as SMARTDRV can improve speed, though it may complicate system setup for mixed DOS and Windows applications. UNINSTALLING AND REINSTALLING The installed files and approximate sizes on your hard disk will be as below. Files marked "ToolBook" should be in your MasterMind Typing directory if you otherwise lack ToolBook. If you have a separate ToolBook installation, "ToolBook" files should be there and not in the MasterMind Typing directory. README.TXT, 23K (this file) MMBW.ICO, 2K MMTYPE.TBK, 140K or 200K TBKVIDEO.DLL, 21K TBKBASE.DLL, 354K (ToolBook) TBKCOMP.DLL, 105K (ToolBook) TBKUTIL.DLL, 60K (ToolBook) TBOOK.EXE, 400K (ToolBook) TBKNET.EXE, 6K (ToolBook) Also, the status of interrupted lessons becomes small files of the form MM.x or x.MM, automatically erased on lesson completion. Usually, you need not uninstall an old MasterMind Typing before installing a replacement. Please remove the old MasterMind Typing icon from your Windows desktop beforehand, though; or reinstallation will leave duplicate icons and doubt about which to remove. Select the old icon with a single mouse-click, then tap the DELete key. If you wish to uninstall fully, also use File Manager to delete the MasterMind Typing directory, normally C:\MMTYPE, and its contents. If you uninstall MasterMind Typing but wish to keep using ToolBook, consider the .TBK extension. SETUP associated .TBK with the ToolBook files in the MasterMind Typing directory if there was no prior ToolBook installation. In that case, to delete C:\MMTYPE would disable ToolBook even if you now have a copy in another directory. To change the effect of .TBK, activate File Manager and choose File|Associate, which produces a dialog box. In the space for "Files with Extension," enter tbk Then tab to the space for "Associate With." You may clear the .TBK association by clicking "(None)" or may edit it to read \<path>\tbook.exe where <path> is the directory or path for the ToolBook files, for example, TOOLBOOK. If reinstalling, SETUP will overwrite the prior MasterMind Typing files. Version 2.x will overwrite version 1.x. If you have a version 1.x derived from the early distribution of MasterMind Typing (before November '92), it has a file MMTBOOK.EXE. Reinstallation does not overwrite MMTBOOK.EXE, because the name of the replacement file is TBOOK.EXE. Please check your MasterMind Typing directory and delete MMTBOOK.EXE if it is there, or it will waste space on your disk. Beware, shareware copies can circulate for years after they are obsolete. While normally there is no need to uninstall before reinstalling, uninstalling will quash anomalies including MMTBOOK.EXE. INSTALLATION FROM REMOVABLE DISK This does not apply if you copied MasterMind Typing to your hard disk by modem from an electronic information service or BBS. MasterMind Typing on the removable disk cannot execute because of its compressed format. For the same reason, you cannot install MasterMind Typing with COPY or XCOPY commands. Nor can you run SETUP from DOS. Please start Windows and choose File|Run from the menus so you can type a command. If D: is the drive where you have MasterMind Typing's distribution disk (or #1 of two disks), the command D:setup will install MasterMind Typing fully. SETUP will propose to create directory C:\MMTYPE and write the files there. You may approve C:\MMTYPE or specify another destination. SETUP will check first and abort, with notice, if space available on the destination disk is less than 1.2 Mbytes. In place of the generic D, please substitute the true letter of the source drive, usually A or B. It is immaterial whether D:SETUP be in capital or small letters. INSTALLATION FROM ZIP ARCHIVES This does not apply if you are installing MasterMind Typing from a removable disk or from MM*.EXE. *.ZIP archives are a common format on electronic bulletin boards (BBS). We divide MasterMind Typing into *A.ZIP and *B.ZIP so either archive will transmit at 2400 baud within 30 minutes, which is a common limit on BBS connect time. There is a describer FILE_ID.DIZ in each ZIP archive, according to BBS preference. When you unzip the second archive, there may be a warning about FILE_ID.DIZ overwrite, to which any reply is all right. (Soon you will discard FILE_ID.DIZ anyway.) Using PKUNZIP or equivalent, extract the individual files from the ZIP archives. Please put all in the same directory, a temporary directory that we shall call \MMTEMP though you may use any name. Though unZIPped, most of the files still are in a compressed format. Then proceed with phase 2 SETUP as described below for de-archived files, substituting the true directory's name if it is not \MMTEMP. INSTALLATION FROM MM*.EXE OR MM*.ZIP ARCHIVES This does not apply if you are installing MasterMind Typing from a removable disk. MM*.EXE and MM*.ZIP are archives that one normally receives via modem. Self-extracting MM*.EXE is easier and safer for end users, but BBS operators often prefer .ZIP archives. If you want to put MasterMind Typing 1.x in a new BBS or library, please advise Peter Turnquist, who will supply auxiliary files and both forms of archive to the system operator. We encourage distribution of version 1.x (shareware) and forbid distributing version 2.x. Installation from MM*.EXE has two phases as follows. Phase 2 follows execution of MM*.EXE or unzipping of MM*.ZIP. 1. Make current the drive containing both MM*.EXE and Windows, usually drive C. MM*.EXE may be in any directory. Run MM*.EXE from either Windows or DOS. This will extract the constituent files and write them in temporary directory \MMTEMP of the same drive. The extraction program automatically creates directory \MMTEMP unless it already exists. After extraction, README.TXT is accessible in directory \MMTEMP; but MasterMind programs still are compressed and cannot execute. 2. From Windows (not DOS), run the program file-- \MMTEMP\SETUP.EXE SETUP will decompress and ask you where to write the files, offering directory C:\MMTYPE as the default destination. SETUP will check first and abort, with notice, if space available on the destination disk is less than 1.2 Mbytes. If installation phase 2 fails because of insufficient disk space, please try moving the results of de-archiving (directory \MMTEMP contents) to a floppy diskette. Also move the archive(s) MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP to your backup medium. Then delete from your main disk both directory \MMTEMP and the archive(s). (Use caution if files besides MasterMind Typing share \MMTEMP.) From Windows, direct the SETUP command to the floppy diskette for installation phase 2. INSTALLATION FROM MMPART?.* This applies only if you are installing without ToolBook files, because your system has them already. The prerequisite ToolBook files are: TBKBASE.DLL, 354K TBKCOMP.DLL, 105K TBKUTIL.DLL, 60K TBOOK.EXE, 400K TBKNET.EXE, 6K, if installed on a network First, please follow the procedure above for installation from an MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP archive. Depending on how you installed ToolBook, MasterMind Typing installation may be complete after SETUP execution. Try double-clicking the MasterMind Typing icon. If installation is complete, MasterMind Typing will start. If Windows reports inability to find the entire application, please use File Manager to "associate" ToolBook with MasterMind Typing. Choose File|Associate, which produces a dialog box. In the space for "Files with Extension," enter tbk Then tab to the space for "Associate With," and edit it to read \<path>\tbook.exe <path> is the directory or path for the ToolBook files, for example, TOOLBOOK. TIDYING AFTER INSTALLATION On the Windows desktop, SETUP leaves the MasterMind Typing icon, overlapping M's, in a new window titled "Temporary Group." Please use your mouse to drag the icon to the group window where you wish to keep it. Before you start the move, the destination window must be at least partly visible. Place the mouse pointer on the icon. Then, while holding down the left mouse button, move the mouse to drag the icon. When the icon is within the destination window, release the button. With a mouse click, please reactivate the Temporary Group window, which now should be empty. Remove the temporary window with the DELete key. You may start MasterMind Typing by double-clicking its icon. This paragraph does not apply if you installed MasterMind Typing from a removable disk. File Manager is convenient for this. After copying MM*.EXE or MM*.ZIP to your usual backup medium--a floppy, for example--please delete the original archive(s) from your hard disk. Directory \MMTEMP and its files have no more use, so please delete them too. (Use caution if files besides MasterMind Typing share \MMTEMP.) Be sure to keep everything that is in directory \MMTYPE. This paragraph applies only if you did a MasterMind Typing installation including ToolBook files that duplicate a ToolBook installation elsewhere in your system. If you have ToolBook elsewhere and Windows "associates" ToolBook elsewhere with MasterMind Typing, please erase the duplicate files from the MasterMind Typing directory (normally \MMTYPE). Do not erase TBKVIDEO.DLL, which is not a ToolBook file. "Installation from MMPART?.*" above lists the relevant ToolBook files and explains "association." IF THE INSTALLATION IS INOPERATIVE MasterMind Typing calls the following Windows files that normally are in directory \WINDOWS\SYSTEM. sound.drv user.exe Administrators sometimes remove SOUND.DRV from network installations of Windows, incorrectly presuming that only games use it. If a file is unavailable, an error message will specify it when you try to start MasterMind Typing. You may add the file(s) either to an accessible directory of Windows or to directory \MMTYPE. Be sure that the files listed under "Uninstalling and Reinstalling" are present in \MMTYPE or the equivalent directory, except that the ToolBook files may be in a separate directory. ("Association" via File Manager is irrelevant for the manual setup described below.) If all files are present, probably automatic setup failed because of a nonstandard Windows installation. With Program Manager or an equivalent shell, you can redo setup manually as follows. If your Windows shell is not from Microsoft, you may need to translate these directions. If setup created a MasterMind Typing icon, please single-click it; then choose File|Properties for adjustment. If setup failed even to create an icon, please choose File|New|ProgramItem. Either way, the following entries should make MasterMind Typing work. Description: Typing Command Line: C:\<path>\tbook mmtype.tbk Working Directory: C:\mmtype Icon File Name: C:\mmtype\mmbw.ico If you have MasterMind Typing on a drive other than C, please substitute the proper letter. For the generic <path>, please substitute the path to the ToolBook files, usually directory MMTYPE, WINDOWS or TOOLBOOK. Similarly, change the directory \MMTYPE if you put MasterMind Typing elsewhere. The icon file name is accessible from the Program Item Properties dialog box via "Change Icon." OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS MasterMind Typing will put appropriate instructions on-screen as you use it. If you wish, a mouse click on a PRINT button will send the instructions of interest to your printer. You will use your mouse to set up a lesson. Within a lesson, though, the mouse is inoperative and you use keys only. The control to stop or interrupt a lesson is function key <F1>. Before reading the instructions thoroughly, it helps to start your first lesson and observe how MasterMind Typing works. This will make the instructions easier to understand. But please run a lesson no more than a few minutes before reading the instructions, or you will develop bad habits. SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION Version 2.x is not shareware and not distributable. The following applies to distribution of version 1.x shareware by both professionals and amateurs. Version 1.x shareware distribution must be either free of charge or within the rules of the Association of Shareware Professionals. Distributable files differ with the means of distribution: archive for electronic distribution or multi-file set for distribution on diskettes. Please contact Peter Turnquist to get the proper archive or file set for the distribution intended. No charge. To remake an archive or file set is improper, because the change would breach the license and probably impair installation. A catalog of shareware, electronic or otherwise, must describe version 1.x in terms approved by Peter Turnquist. The latest revision of CATALOG.TXT or FILE_ID.DIZ, issued by Peter Turnquist, is an approved description. UPGRADE; SUPPORT; SITE LICENSING; ORDERS If you have only shareware version 1.x, you need version 2.x for advanced lessons. Because version 1.x takes only about six hours to teach you the keyboard, please order your 2.x upgrade NOW! So your advanced lessons will be here when you want them. For the order form, click the "upgrade" button while running shareware version 1.x. Upgrade 2.x adds two more phases of learning for dexterity and speed. Working with full words, phase 2 quickly makes you adept on all the 2-letter and 3-letter sequences common in English. Then finish the course with sentence text in phase 3. Besides perfecting your typing, phase 3 enables you to impress friends with eloquent recitations. As in phase 1, the MasterMind magic makes learning fast and easy in advanced phases too. About MasterMind Typing, including orders if payment is by check or money order, please contact Peter Turnquist 2400 Olympic Blvd., suite 3-192 Walnut Creek, California 94595-1500 U.S.A. (510)210-1603 With payment by credit card, Public Software Library (PSL) takes orders for MasterMind Typing 2.x (PSL program 10632) but has no other information. MasterCard, VISA, Amex and Discover are welcome. PSL takes oral orders at (800)242-4775 from the U.S.A. or (713)524-6394 from other countries. For other ways to order, choose "upgrade" when running version 1.x. For advice about Windows, Microsoft support is (206)637-7098 in Redmond, Washington.