Copyright 1992-1996 by Peter Turnquist. All rights reserved. MasterMind is a trademark of Peter Turnquist. GENERAL INFORMATION 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 Phase 3, MasterMind enables you to dazzle friends with eloquent recitations, while you perfect your typing or for pleasure. For teachers supervising groups, MasterMind Typing is simple because mastery by everyone is intrinsic. There is no grading. Specific advice and a printable form for student records are in the file WhyHowMM.evy. It is among the original files, not installed in the MasterMind Typing directory. WhyHowMM.evy also explains the science underlying MasterMind, probably interesting to any user. Documents in .EVY format are readable and printable with an Envoy viewer. As of mid-1996, a free viewer is downloadable as follows. In CompuServe, GO PCVENJ, choose Libraries|TaskingSoftware|Download and enter filename EDVWIN; or do the equivalent with WinCIM. In America OnLine, choose GoTo|SearchSoftwareLibraries and specify keyword EDVWIN. For newer Win95 and Macintosh viewers via the Internet, ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/wordperfect/envoy7_viewers. MasterMind Typing incorporates runtime ToolBook under license from Asymetrix Corp. *.zip file format is compatible with pkUnzip of PKWare, Inc. USER LICENSE; 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. After trying version 1.x enough 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. 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. INSTALLATION The distribution diskette of MasterMind Typing may be: 1.44M (3.5-inch) or 1.2M (5.25-inch) If you got a diskette that your system cannot read, please contact the supplier. Please protect your source file(s) before proceeding. If you acquired MasterMind Typing on floppy diskettes, please write-protect them. If you acquired MasterMind Typing by modem, please copy the original archive 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. Please use pkUnZip if your source file is a *.zip archive. When you have the constituent files, please run the proper installation program: Under Win95 or NT, SETUP Or under Win3.x, CONFIG3X.EXE PRINTING README.TXT Unless you have our printed manual, it is useful to print README.txt (about fifteen pages). Under DOS, if you scroll the printing instructions onto your screen, you may key PrintScreen or Shift+PrintScreen to print just that much. We recommend printing via Notepad of the Windows Accessories, because it will paginate. In Notepad, choose File|Open and specify the 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 the :\ that you have provided. With README.txt 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 READ- ME.txt, substitute your actual :\. RESOURCES NEEDED Prerequisite resources are: Microsoft Windows 3.x or 95 or NT. A processor and memory that supports your Windows variant. 2 Mbytes free on the hard disk. EGA or better display, color preferred. Mouse (or equivalent, e.g., trackball). You can check your Windows 3.x mode from Program Manager by choosing Help|AboutProgramManager. For MasterMind Typing and Windows applications generally, the appropriate mode is "standard" for an 80286 processor, or "enhanced" for a '386 or better. "Real" mode is incompatible with MasterMind Typing. Help|AboutProgramManager also will show Free Memory (RAM). With just Windows loaded (before you start any application such as MasterMind Typing), Free Memory should be at least 600 Kbytes. 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 needs at least 500K of XMS memory to run on a '286 processor in Windows 3.0 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. Newer versions of Windows demand more memory. 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.x 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 phone numbers are under "Support" near the end of this document. 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: readme.txt, 25K (this file) menuset.bat, 3K mmtype95.lnk, 1K tada.wav, 28K mmbw.ico, 2K mmtype.tbk, 200K tbkvideo.dll, 12K tbkbase.dll, 354K (ToolBook) tbkcomp.dll, 105K (ToolBook) tbkutil.dll, 60K (ToolBook) tbook.exe, 400K (ToolBook) tbknet.exe, 6K (ToolBook) Also, the status of each interrupted lesson x becomes a small file named x.MM, automatically erased on lesson completion. A shareware MMTYPE*.zip or diskette contains extra files, not installed, to aid shareware distribution. If you have a separate ToolBook installation and are expert at sharing files under Windows, you may keep "ToolBook" files in a shared directory instead of the MasterMind Typing directory. File sharing varies with the versions of Windows and is overly complex for explanation here. Generally, there is no need to uninstall an old MasterMind Typing before installing a replacement. The new installation overwrites the old. If reinstallation leaves duplicate icons, you may remove either. Select a redundant icon with a single mouse-click, then tap the DELete key. If you wish to uninstall fully, delete the MasterMind Typing directory, normally C:\MMTYPE. If you uninstall MasterMind Typing but wish to keep using ToolBook, consider the .TBK extension. Installation may have 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 check the effect of .TBK under Win3.x or NT, choose Main|FileManager|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 \\tbook.exe where is the directory or path for the ToolBook files, for example, TOOLBOOK. To control file association under Win95 is trickier. Experts may run REGEDIT or use Start|Programs|Explorer|View|Options|FileTypes. Also please see the note below, "Troubleshooting - MMTyping Fails to Launch under Win95's User Interface." WIN3.X or NT - TIDYING AFTER INSTALLATION At this writing, the current NT is version 3.51 with user interface resembling Win3.x. But Microsoft is changing NT to resemble Win95, for release later in 1996. Thereafter, NT users should follow advice for the Win95 interface. On the Windows desktop, installation 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 applies only if you did a MasterMind Typing installation including ToolBook files that duplicate a Tool- Book 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. "Uninstalling and Reinstalling" above notes the relevant ToolBook files. INSTALLING WIN95 OVER A PRIOR INSTALLATION This pertains to MasterMind Typing installed under Win3.x or WinNT, if one afterward changes to Win95 or adds Win95's user interface to NT. Win95 applications normally launch from its Start|Programs menu, which did not exist in prior Windows. To place the MMtype95 shortcut icon on your Start|Programs menu, execute the MenuSet utility from the MasterMind Typing folder. If your MasterMind Typing installation directory is not the standard C:\MMTYPE, MenuSet will tell you how to edit the startup information. Besides being prerequisite to launching from Start|Programs, this will enable launch from the MasterMind Typing folder also. KEYBOARD COMPATIBILITY MasterMind Typing self-adapts to various symbol layouts if Windows identifies the symbols with single-byte codes as usual. Keyboards served include U.S., Dvorak, European, Arabic etc. The Dvorak layout increases typing speed for English about 30% by putting the more common keys in easier reach. If unsure whether MasterMind Typing will teach a keyboard of interest, please try it. The speed of learning with MasterMind, unlike other tutors, makes it practical to learn multiple keyboards. U.S. keyboards have two keys in the upper corners bearing symbols that are unimportant for writing in English. The equivalent keys can be alphabetic in Europe, where keyboards place them differently. Because the usual use of these keys is for European languages, MasterMind Typing teaches the European locations. If your physical keyboard is U.S.-style but you configure Windows for a language other than English, MasterMind Typing can misdirect you to one or two places where you have no key: the lower-left corner or the right end of the home row. Then, the usable keys will be in an upper corner instead. With larger alphabets, the European keyboard is better not merely for MasterMind Typing but also because it makes the keys easier to reach. Under Win3.x and NT, changing the keyboard via Main|ControlPanel|International|KeyboardLayout also changes the MasterMind Typing lessons to correspond. Under Win95, the comparable procedure is Start|Settings |ControlPanel|Keyboard|Language|Properties|KeyboardLayout. There are separate choices for keyboard language and keyboard layout. Presumably, one should make the two consistent. Win95 allows one to "Add" a keyboard from its original installation disk if needed. With a multi-keyboard setup, the Win95 task bar has a button at the right end to change keyboards quickly. Keyboard change affects phase 1 lessons mainly. Because MasterMind Typing uses English for phases 2 and 3, those lessons now only serve alphabets based on Latin. We would welcome inducement from local publishers to translate for other languages. TROUBLESHOOTING - FAULTY DISPLAY For display, the most reliable mode is 640x480 VGA, 16 colors. The Windows 3.x way to change the display is Main|WindowsSetup|Options|ChangeSystemSettings|Display. The Win95 way is Start|Settings|ControlPanel|Display|Settings|ChangeDisplay. TROUBLESHOOTING - MMTYPING FAILS TO LAUNCH UNDER WIN95'S USER INTERFACE If MasterMind Typing formerly worked but fails to start since you changed to Win95, the fix is easy. Please see "Installing Win95 Over a Prior Installation" above. Otherwise, please read on here. MasterMind Typing has a two-word startup command: tbook.exe mmtype TBOOK.exe is one of the ToolBook files, usually installed in the MasterMind Typing folder. MMTYPE is the file MMTYPE.tbk, always in the MasterMind Typing folder. If your installation has all the files listed above under "Uninstalling and Reinstalling," launch failure probably means that Windows cannot find TBOOK.exe or MMTYPE.tbk. A Win95 "folder" is what prior Windows called a "directory." One may navigate among folders using either My Computer or Start|Programs|Explorer. Please go to the MasterMind Typing folder and RIGHTclick the "MMtype95" keyboard icon. Then choose Properties|Shortcut. The "Target" field needs the startup command with and to TBOOK.exe in the form: :\\tbook.exe mmtype Upper/lower case is immaterial. The "Start in" field needs the location of the MasterMind Typing folder (which contains MMTYPE.tbk) in the form: :\ Unless you put ToolBook files into a folder shared by other applications, and for "Start in" should be the same as for "Target." For a standard installation, "Target" is-- c:\mmtype\tbook.exe mmtype and "Start in" is-- c:\mmtype After making your "Target" and "Start in" entries, OK the changes and test startup using the "MMtype95" keyboard icon. If MasterMind Typing launches all right, execute the MenuSet utility. MenuSet copies the MMtype95 shortcut to the Start|Programs menu for easier launch. TROUBLESHOOTING - MMTYPING FAILS TO LAUNCH UNDER WIN3.X's USER INTERFACE Please be sure that the files listed under "Uninstalling and Reinstalling" are present in C:\MMTYPE or the equivalent directory, except that the ToolBook files may be in a separate directory. If all files are present, there probably is some inconsistency between your Windows setup and MasterMind Typing's automated installation. With Program Manager or an equivalent shell, please redo MasterMind Typing 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:\\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 , 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." TROUBLESHOOTING - PRINTING If results are poor or none from a PRINT button within MasterMind Typing, you may change setup to make your printer emulate a model that MasterMind Typing recognizes. So you may reverse the change conveniently, it helps to leave Windows Print Manager as a minimized icon on your desktop. Generally, the steps are: 1. From your printer manual, ascertain the availability of emulation. Good choices to emulate are older printers that have been very popular, such as IBM Proprinter, HP LaserJet or Epson. 2. The mechanism to choose emulation may be internal jumpers, DIP switches, a front-panel menu or whatever, for which one needs the printer documentation. Power off your printer while changing both the printer and the Windows software that drives it. Set the printer to an appropriate emulation or, if available, auto-selection of emulation. 3. In Windows, choose Main|PrintManager|Options|PrinterSetup or, for NT, Main|PrintManager|Printer|CreatePrinter or, for Win95, Start|Settings|Printers. Set Windows for what your printer emulates or a model of the same group. If the printer wanted is absent, follow Windows' on-screen guidance in adding to the available printers from its installation disk. If the procedure requires a choice of fonts, choose Courier. 4. Set the chosen printer as Windows' default printer. 5. Rather than exiting from the Print Manager, one may minimize it by clicking the down arrow in the window's upper right corner. 6. Power on the printer, or cycle power off and on if you never turned it off before. 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. Please use your mouse to set up a lesson. Within a lesson, though, the mouse is inoperative and you use keys only. To revert from any current condition, one keys . 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 LICENSE This applies to distribution of MasterMind Typing 1.x by both professionals and amateurs. 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