• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program...
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  • developed the educational typing game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. The game was successful and inspired Fargo to create a typing game of his own. Considering...
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  • Mavis Beacon is a fictional character created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing line of computer software. Developed to be a personification of a The...
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    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987) includes several typing-related minigames. In 2000, The Typing of the Dead became known as the "ultimate typing game...
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  • model for Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program developed in the 1980s. Jazmin Renée Jones Olivia McKayla Ross Seeking Mavis Beacon was produced...
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  • mature typing program". MacWorld heavily criticized the game's gameplay and graphics, and recommended that players play Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing instead...
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  • MyChess in 1980; other notable games include Chessmaster 2000, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and Mario Is Missing!. Toolworks merged with its distributor...
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  • hallmark typing game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing contacted Epshteyn regarding TypeRacer, he expressed approval for the project on behalf of the Beacon team...
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    "Etienne Shrdlu" was used as the name of a character in Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, touch-typing training software from the late 1980s. Variations of "Etaoin...
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    Dallas Mavis Beacon, the eponymous African-American typing instructor of the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software Mavis Bramston, from The Mavis Bramston...
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  • experience", David Lynch Teaches Typing is a satire of touch typing educational software titles such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. A likeness of David Lynch...
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  • commercial software programs, including Microsoft Bookshelf, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and Quicken. He is the creator of the Macintosh shareware games...
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  • edutainment titles such as The Print Shop, Carmen Sandiego, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, the Living Books series, and Reader Rabbit titles, in addition...
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  • For Mario Teaches Typing, the head of Interplay Productions, Brian Fargo, saw the success of the typing game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and knew a...
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  • 2020. Cowan, Danny (7 July 2009). "Genomics Digital Lab Uses Gaming to Teach Biology". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 1 May 2020. Shapiro, Jordan (2013-03-22)...
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  • technique. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is a largely known program with built in mini-games to keep the user entertained while improving their typing skills...
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  • (1986) TrailBlazer (1986) Uninvited (1986) Shadowgate (1987) Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987) Road Runner (Commodore 64, MS-DOS) (United States, Canada)...
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  • entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization...
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    color chess series Chessmaster 2000 and the educational series Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. The company was also responsible for such games as The Original...
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    Its products have been compared to contemporaries like Typing Tutor and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. The company's products have secured numerous industry...
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  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale Mavis Beacon, fictitious typing tutor created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing application software. Phantom of Heilbronn...
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    Up-To-Date and Contact. Software bundle 2: Microsoft Works, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Kid Works, Thinkin' Things, The Writing Center, Fractal Dabbler...
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    Almanac (on models equipped with a CD-ROM drive), Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, or Mario Teaches Typing, and a selection of games such as Spectre Challenger...
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  • he helped develop the best-selling program Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!. His work included writing 750 typing lessons and an extensive user's guide. From...
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  • Toolworks Novato California United States 1980 Chessmaster 2000 Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Mario Is Missing! Acquired by Pearson plc TopWare Interactive...
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  • previously been dominated by titles for older children like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, by 1997 sales of...
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