Typing
Master: is a touch typing software program that improves your
typing skills and tests your typing speed. Learn touch-type keyboarding skills
with effective tutorial lessons. Speed up your typing by 200 per cent with the
help of Typing Master
Typing Master is
developed by Sector Software. The latest release is version 1.27 which was
released in December 2008 for Microsoft Windows based computers.
Touch Typist typing tutor is the earliest example of typing
tutor software currently still on sale. The software was written and released
for sale in 1985 on the Sinclair QL computer. Its first public sale was at The
ZX Microfair in 1985. This was a very popular computer show held in The
Horticultural Halls, Elverton Street, London, England. The ZX Microfair was a
showcase for all manner of software and hardware related to the Sinclair range
of computers. The software was also first advertised as a small classified
advert in QL World magazine, but soon became a flagship product for the company
formed to sell it, Sector Software.
Touch Typist soon went on sale in WH Smiths as well as in
many smaller computer shops which were supplied by the now defunct company
Terry Blood Distribution Ltd.
The software was originally written in QL Basic on the
Sinclair QL, this was compiled with the Digital Precision Superbasic Compiler
and released on Sinclair Microdrive cartridges for the Sinclair QL computer.
Microdrive cartridges were small cartridges similar to an 8 track tape, with a
continuous loop of tape which could hold 100KB of code.
Touch Typist has been on continuous sale and been continually
developed by the original author David Batty and is still published by the
original company, Sector Software of Leyland Lancashire.
The current version of the software is written in Microsoft
Visual Basic, versions for other platforms have all been written in other
versions of compiled BASIC.
The software features very short lessons, each less than 55
characters long. With feedback after every lesson. The very short lessons with
plenty of feedback give the software a 'game' feel.
The first version of the software had a Space Invaders game
built into it that the users were allowed to play once for every 20 lessons
they completed. The Sinclair QL had 128KB of memory, but after the operating
system had taken its share of it, only 97KB were left for programs to run.
Touch Typist was 95K in size so there was only 2KB of memory left in which to
add a game. In order to include a game without losing anything from the
software, a space invaders game was written in MC68000 machine code, the whole
game and graphics took just 2K of memory. The game was removed in second and
subsequent versions after requests from various schools who were using the
software, for a version without an arcade game in it.
The software is currently available on this website to
schools, colleges, businesses and private individuals around the world.The
software is distributed either on a CD for Microsoft Windows based machines, or
via a download and on-line unlocking method.Typing Master is a very useful
softwares for every person.Now you download Typing Master to imporove your
typing speed.
 |
| Pic 1 |
 |
| Pic 2 |
 |
| Pic 3 |
1: Download The Software & Extract To Winrar.
2: Click To Typing master exe. & Enjoy.
No comments:
Post a Comment