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| This VENDINFO Product Information File contains both readable text |
| and tools-accessible data about a product. See the last text |
| section, below, for more information about VENDINFO and its tools. |
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VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 28-Jun-1996
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: MasterMind Typing to become QUICKLY a touchTypist
Version: 1.06
Version Date: 1-Jun-1996
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
Product Description: MasterMind Typing v1.06 - You WILL learn
easily to touch-type, because MasterMind
reads your mind. It knows when you're ready
for a new key and exactly when to repeat
which. So you learn for sure and much faster.
Master the keyboard in 2 to 6 hours! Moving
hands show fingering on-screen. More fun than
a game. Teaches multiple keyboards: US,
Dvorak, European, Arabic etc. Needs Win 3.x,
95 or NT; 2M RAM. Shareware.
Reason for version: Win95 & exotic keyboards: US, Dvorak,
European, Arabic etc.
Category: Education; Computers; Typing tutors
Keywords: typing tutor keyboard mastermind touch
teacher typist keyboarding
Required Packages: MMTYPE06
This Package: MMTYPE06
Registration Fee: 29.95 (US$)
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80286 (AT))
Minimum OS: Windows 3.0
Standard RAM: 640K
XMS Memory: 0K
Hard Drive Space: 2000K
Required:
XMS
Hard drive
Keyboard
Mouse
Orders:
Address: Peter Turnquist Co.
1908C Tice Valley Blvd., #192
Walnut Creek, California
94595-2203 U.S.A.
Toll-Free Phone: in README.txt, many
Phone: (+1 510) 930 3329
FAX: (+1 510) 937 5815
CompuServe: 73707,1142
Internet: 73707.1142@compuserve.com
Support:
Address: Peter Turnquist Co.
1908C Tice Valley Blvd., #192
Walnut Creek, California
94595-2203 U.S.A.
Phone: (+1 510) 210 1603
CompuServe: 73707,1142
Internet: 73707.1142@compuserve.com
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
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.
PRINTING README.TXT
Unless you have our printed manual, it is useful to print the
complete form of README.txt (about fifteen pages, that is,
larger than the VENDINFO abridgment you are reading now).
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>.
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.
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 <ESCape>.
Before reading the instructions thoroughly, it helps to start
your first lesson and