Re: [kidsgames] Typing/Reading Tutors

[Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@xtra.co.nz>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Brian Minton wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Robert Black wrote:
> 
> > I hope I'm not putting the cart before the horse to suggest a couple of
> > programs if someone was looking for an idea. I was looking for a single
> > floppy program to run on a 486 when our windows machines were tied up for
> > my stepdaughter (age 12) to play some new games and ran across a free one
> > (no charge, not gnu type free) for windows put out by
> > http://typingmaster.com/index.html. 

Years ago I did a very simple curses based typing tutor, I'm sorry I have lost
the sources locally but it's part of the C Users' Journal program library.
Here is the url for the Journal archive entry.

http://www.hal9k.com/cug/v300e.htm#cug395c

I developed it on an ATT 3b/2 so it should go well on a 486 Linux box.

It's free software, but you'll have to pay for the diskette


> For instance, in Windows, there is Mavis Beacon... 

Does anybody know if this works under Wine?
 
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