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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.