Copyright 1992 by Peter Turnquist. All rights reserved. MasterMind is a trademark of Peter Turnquist. Please see the important LICENSE AGREEMENT below. INTRODUCTION It is helpful to print README.TXT (about 8 pages), making the in- structions 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, select File | Open and specify this file as \README.TXT Before installation, the of README.TXT usually is A: or B:. After installation, is C:\MMTYPE or another :\path that you have provided. With this text on-screen in Notepad, the menu selections 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 COPY \README.TXT PRN Please protect your source file(s) before proceeding. If you acquired MasterMind Typing on floppy diskettes, write-protect them. If you acquired the MMTYPE.EXE or MMTYPE_?.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 will please and satisfy you. In the advanced phase of version 2.x, Master- Mind enables you to learn memorable literature, while you prac- tice 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(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. 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 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, 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 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 copy must be complete, including all legal notices. Any effort to imitate the software would breach the license and, besides, pro- bably 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. Distributable files differ with the means of distribution: archive for electronic distribution or multi-file set for distribution on diskettes. 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 violate the installation instructions. Version 2.x is not distributable. 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 arbi- tration 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. 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 a less 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 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 cannot 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. UNINSTALLING AND REINSTALLING 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 TBOOK.EXE, 400K TBKNET.EXE, 6K MMBW.ICO, 2K README.TXT, 19K (this file) Also, the status of interrupted lessons becomes small files of the form MM.x, 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 con- tents. SETUP defines a .tbk extension that will remain part of WIN.INI, which helps ToolBook applications and harms none. Just let WIN.INI be. Otherwise, MasterMind Typing does not affect system files. 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. Rein- stallation 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 all anomalies including MMTBOOK.EXE. INSTALLATION FROM FLOPPY DISKETTE(S) 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 diskette 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 select File | Run from the menus so you can type a command. If D is the floppy drive where you have MasterMind Typing's distribution diskette (or #1 of two diskettes), 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 floppy 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 floppy disk or from MMTYPE.EXE. *.ZIP archives are a common format on electronic bulletin boards (BBS). We divide MasterMind Typing into MMTYPE_A.ZIP and MMTYPE_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.) The unZIPped results are about thirteen files, mostly still in a compressed format. Please put all in the same directory, a temporary directory that we shall call \MMTEMP though you may use any name. 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 MMTYPE.EXE OR ZIP ARCHIVES This does not apply if you are installing MasterMind Typing from a floppy disk. MMTYPE.EXE and MMTYPE_?.ZIP are archives that one normally re- ceives via modem. Self-extracting MMTYPE.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 MMTYPE.EXE has two phases as follows. Phase 2 follows execution of MMTYPE.EXE or unzipping of MMTYPE_?.ZIP. 1. Make current the drive containing both MMTYPE.EXE and Windows, usually drive C. MMTYPE.EXE may be in any directory. Run MMTYPE.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) MMTYPE- .EXE or MMTYPE_?.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. TIDYING AFTER SETUP 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 floppy diskette. File Manager is convenient for this. After copying MMTYPE.EXE or MMTYPE_?.ZIP to your usual backup medium--a floppy, for example--please delete the original ar- chive(s). 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. IF THE INSTALLATION IS INOPERATIVE First, be sure that the files listed under "Uninstalling and Reinstalling" are present in \MMTYPE or the equivalent directory. If the files are there, probably automatic setup failed because of a nonstandard Windows installation. With Program Manager or an equivalent shell, you can redo setup. If your Windows shell is not from Microsoft, you may need to translate the following directions. If setup created a MasterMind Typing icon, you can click it; then select File|Properties for adjustment. If setup failed even to create an icon, select File|New|ProgramItem. Either way, the following entries should make MasterMind Typing work. Description: Typing Command Line: D:\mmtype\tbook mmtype.tbk Working Directory: D:\mmtype Icon File Name: D:\mmtype\mmbw.ico For the generic drive-letter "D," please substitute the drive that contains MasterMind Typing, usually C. Similarly, change the directory \MMTYPE if you put MasterMind Typing elsewhere. To access the icon file name, select "Change Icon" from the Program Item Properties dialog box. MasterMind Typing calls the following Windows files that normally are in directory \WINDOWS\SYSTEM. sound.drv user.exe If either file is inaccessible, 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. 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 . 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. SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION Version 2.x is not shareware and not distributable. The follow- ing applies to distribution of version 1.x shareware by both pro- fessionals 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 a bad risk, because the change would breach the license and probably spoil the installation instruc- tions. SUPPORT For more information about MasterMind Typing, please contact Peter Turnquist MSC 192 2400 Olympic Blvd., Suite 3 Walnut Creek, California 94595-1500 U.S.A. (510)210-1603 For advice about Windows, Microsoft support is (206)637-7098 in Redmond, Washington.