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- Copyright 1992 by Peter Turnquist.
- All rights reserved.
- MasterMind is a trademark of Peter Turnquist.
- Please see the important LICENSE AGREEMENT below.
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Please print INSTALL.TXT (about 7 pages) so all the instructions
- will be visible while you install MasterMind Typing. Unless
- Windows has control, you may tap PrintScreen now to record just
- the directions for using Notepad to both display and print.
-
- We recommend printing via Notepad of the Windows Accessories,
- because it will paginate. In Notepad, select File | Open and
- specify this file as
- <location>\INSTALL.TXT
- Before installation, the <location> of INSTALL.TXT usually is A:
- or B:. After installation, <location> is C:\MMTYPE or another
- <drive>:\path that you have provided.
-
- With this text on-screen in Notepad, the menu selections are
- File | Print
-
- Alternatively, you can print from DOS 5.x Edit or from Write of
- Windows. If you open INSTALL.TXT in Write, choosing "No Conver-
- sion" keeps it unformatted. "Convert" changes it unnecessarily
- to .WRI format, which is all right unless you save the change.
-
- When you exit from any editor, please do NOT save changes.
-
- If you want to print from DOS, a convenient command is
- COPY <location>\INSTALL.TXT PRN
-
- 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. Though hard to
- explain in words, you will understand it when you have the Mas-
- terMind experience. In the advanced phase of version 2.x,
- MasterMind enables you to learn memorable literature, while you
- practice typing or just for fun.
-
- 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 drive C
- EGA or better display, color preferred
- mouse (or equivalent, e.g., trackball)
-
- You can check your Windows mode from Program Manager by choosing
- Help | About Program Manager. Standard or enhanced mode is all
- right for MasterMind Typing, but enhanced mode needs 2 Mbytes
- RAM. Real mode is incompatible. Help | About Program Manager
- 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 of MasterMind Typing may be any of:
- 720K (3.5-inch)
- 1.44M (3.5-inch)
- 1.2M (5.25-inch)
- If you got a diskette that your system cannot read, a friend or
- the seller can copy from it to a diskette that fits.
-
-
- LICENSE AGREEMENT; MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
- 13 October, 1992 supersedes prior licenses
-
- By your authorized use of MasterMind Typing, you accept a license
- for a single user on the following terms. If you have an unau-
- thorized 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, we authorize copying and distribution of version 1.x
- in the manner described below. After trying version 1.x suffi-
- ciently 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 organiza-
- tions.) Version 2.x comes with a 60-day guarantee of satisfac-
- tion. 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
- effort to imitate the software would breach the contract 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 Associa-
- tion of Shareware Professionals. To alter a file or to recom-
- press the constituent files of MasterMind Typing, a 1.x shareware
- distributor must apply for a special license at the author's
- discretion, except that EXTRACT.EXE may be renamed as MMTYPE.EXE
- or vice-versa. 1.x shareware distribution via removable disk
- must include uncompressed INSTALL.TXT. Otherwise, constituent
- files are not distributable. (Please also see "Shareware Librar-
- ies & Phone Links" below.)
-
- For malfunction of the software, no supplier has any liability
- beyond refund of the license fee. There is NO WARRANTY OF
- MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS for use and no liability for conse-
- quential damages.
-
- If you object to any of these terms, your sole recourse is to
- return the unused product immediately for refund. Violation of
- any of its provisions automatically cancels the license.
-
-
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-
- MasterMind Typing incorporates runtime ToolBook under license
- from Asymetrix Corp. EXTRACT.EXE or MMTYPE.EXE incorporates file
- compression licensed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki.
-
-
- 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). EMS is an outmoded, relatively inefficient 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 update all the configurable memory from EMS to 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
- should 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.
-
- The method to reconfigure memory varies among computer makers.
- Typically, one starts a setup program by pressing some combina-
- tion 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 do not advise about memory configu-
- ration. 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.
-
-
- INSTALLATION FROM FLOPPY TO HARD DISK
-
- This does not apply if you downloaded MMTYPE.EXE or MMTYPE.ZIP
- from another computer to your hard disk.
-
- MasterMind Typing on the floppy disk cannot execute because it is
- in compressed format. For the same reason, you cannot install
- MasterMind Typing with COPY or XCOPY commands. If D is the
- floppy drive where you have the MasterMind Typing distribution
- diskette, the DOS-level command
- D:extract
- will decompress the files and write them in directory \MMTYPE of
- the current drive. Creation of directory \MMTYPE will be auto-
- matic too unless it already exists.
-
- In place of the generic D, please substitute the actual letter of
- the floppy drive, usually A or B. It is immaterial whether
- D:EXTRACT be in capital or small letters. If reinstalling, you
- will get prompts for a series of Y's (yes) that you must key to
- overwrite the older MasterMind Typing files.
-
- You must execute D:EXTRACT from a DOS prompt, which is available
- before Windows starts or from the Main window after Windows
- starts. (Under the Program Manager or File Manager of Windows,
- D:EXTRACT attempts incorrectly to install on the floppy drive.)
- Please observe the DOS prompt and BE SURE THE CURRENT DRIVE IS
- THE HARD DISK WHERE YOU WANT THE INSTALLATION TO GO. The floppy
- drive must not be current. On the hard drive, it does not matter
- what directory is current.
-
- If directory \MMTYPE does not suit you, you can move the files
- elsewhere after installation. This installation does not yet
- make MasterMind Typing accessible under Windows. Please see
- below.
-
-
- SHAREWARE LIBRARIES & PHONE LINKS
-
- This does not apply if you are installing MasterMind Typing from
- a floppy disk.
-
- We encourage distribution of version 1.x (shareware) and forbid
- it for version 2.x. You are welcome to upload shareware version
- 1.x to your favorite bulletin boards in compressed form under the
- name MMTYPE.EXE. This means changing the name of the compressed
- archive if you acquired it as EXTRACT.EXE on a floppy disk. If
- you distribute shareware version 1.x EXTRACT.EXE via removable
- disk, recipients need uncompressed INSTALL.TXT too. Except
- INSTALL.TXT, distribute only the original, compressed archive of
- shareware 1.x, not the constituent files.
-
- The original archive of MasterMind Typing uses LHA compression.
- The compressed MMTYPE.EXE or EXTRACT.EXE will self-extract and
- write the constituent files in directory \MMTYPE. Unlike PKSFX
- archives, self-extraction is independent of the current directory
- and fully automatic including directory \MMTYPE creation (pro-
- vided that no floppy disk is involved). The same procedure
- reinstalls if directory \MMTYPE already exists. There will be
- prompts for a series of Y's (yes) that the installer must key to
- overwrite prior MasterMind Typing files.
-
- You may archive MasterMind Typing differently for your personal
- use; but you must apply for a special license before issuing a
- copy of a different archive to anyone else. We control this to
- keep installation foolproof. A "different" archive is any
- recompression or rearchive of MasterMind Typing's constituent
- files. This applies only to shareware version 1.x, as 2.x is not
- distributable at all.
-
- If you received a .ZIP archive of MasterMind Typing, please
- notify us unless it has a special license. With a .ZIP archive,
- the installer must explicitly create directory \MMTYPE, or the
- equivalent, and must run an unzip utility to decompress files
- into the new directory. Decompression should make INSTALL.TXT
- (this document) available to guide the installer onward.
-
- Please see below about access to MasterMind Typing from Windows.
- After installation, MMTYPE.EXE or MMTYPE.ZIP becomes unnecessary,
- except for backup or, as to shareware 1.x, for redistribution.
- You must not erase MMTYPE.TBK, though.
-
-
- ACCESS UNDER WINDOWS
-
- The installed files and approximate sizes on your hard disk will
- be:
- MMTYPE.TBK, 180K
- TBKBASE.DLL, 354K
- TBKCOMP.DLL, 105K
- TBKUTIL.DLL, 60K
- TBKVIDEO.DLL, 21K
- MMTBOOK.EXE, 400K
- MMBW.ICO, 2K
- INSTALL.TXT, 13K (this file)
-
- Putting MasterMind Typing on your hard disk does not make it
- accessible under Windows. When it is on your hard disk, please
- make MasterMind Typing accessible as follows.
-
- 1. In Windows, activate Program Manager. Then, if you already
- have a program group that suits MasterMind Typing, please skip to
- part 2. Every Windows application is a member of some group. If
- you now have no program group for Windows applications, here is
- how to create one. From the Program Manager menu bar, choose
- File | New
- In the New Program Object dialog box, select Program Group, then
- click OK. This produces the Program Group Properties dialog box.
- As the Description, enter
- Applications
- (It suffices to leave the Group File space blank.) Then click OK
- in Program Group Properties. This leaves on the screen an
- active, group window for Windows applications.
-
- 2. If it is not active already, now activate the group window
- where you want the MasterMind Typing icon, keeping Program
- Manager's menu bar visible.
-
- 3. From Program Manager, choose
- File | New
-
- 4. In the New Program Object dialog box, select Program Item,
- then click OK. This produces the Program Item Properties dialog
- box. As the Description, enter
- Typing
-
- 5. As the Command Line, enter
- C:\MMTYPE\MMTBOOK.EXE MMTYPE
- or a substitute conforming to the directory of MasterMind Typing
- files, if you put them elsewhere. The final command is always
- MMTBOOK.EXE MMTYPE
-
- 6. To conclude, click OK in Program Item Properties. The icon,
- overlapping M's, should appear in your chosen window, where you
- may double-click on it to start MasterMind Typing.
-
-
- 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 instruc-
- tions, or you will develop bad habits.
-
-
- For more information about MasterMind Typing, please contact
-
- Peter Turnquist
- 2400 Olympic Blvd., Suite 3192
- Walnut Creek, California 94595-1500
- U.S.A.
- (510)210-1603
-
- For advice about Windows, Microsoft support is (206)637-7098 in
- Redmond, Washington.