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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 <drive>:\<path> 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 <drive>:\<path>.
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.