THE SPELLBOUND! SPELLING TUTOR VERSION 2.10 RELEASE 3 REQUIRES: DOS 3.1 or higher, Color Card, (or Herc w/ CGA emulator), and 384k free memory. IMPORTANT!!! THIS PROGRAM MAY ONLY BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE FORM OF THE 4 FILES: README INSTALL.EXE ARCHIVE1 ARCHIVE2 The INSTALL.EXE program is the ONLY means by which to make a successful installation of the program. Distributing in any other way is an infringement of our copyright. IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THIS RELEASE!!! RELEASE 3 Release 3 corrects a problem in INSTALL.EXE in which it would not install properly to a 2 360k floppy system. The README file has been substantially reduced also to allow DOS 5's COMMAND.COM to fit on the 360k installation diskette as well. No other changes have occurred. RELEASE 2 This is a re-release of version 2.10. Some text changes have been made because a few individuals seemed to have misunderstood the joke about the "SPELLBOUND! Software, Super Duper, New and Improved, All Purpose Shareware Curse", which had nothing to do with the operation of the program but with matters of health and hygiene. It was imagined that the program might do some damage if used beyond the evaluation period! This has never been the case. We attempted to use humor to break the tension left by the legalese of the license agreement. This copy has been edited to make clear that the program is not disabled in ANY way! EXHAUSTIVE BEYOND BELIEF! This uniquely exhaustive program exceeds all of the criteria to which educational software is held by the education community. Besides providing a full battery of teacher tools, it prints individual and class reports, providing many types of useful information. In addition, as it teaches spelling, it creates a personal difficult word list for each student, and allows you to create and format your own word lists. You can even use ANY TEXT FILE as a source for words! VOLUMINOUS CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELP The Pop-Up Context-Sensitive Help system is exhaustive -- you probably will not even need to read the documentation! Following are some of the wonderful features of this incredibly comprehensive program. CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! The Public Brand Software Library, one of the larger shareware distribution and evaluation services, gave Version 1.10 of the Spelling Tutor 4 stars out of 4 and its coveted "Trophy -- best software anywhere for the task" rating and called it "A first rate Spelling Tutor..." SHAREWARE MAGAZINE said, "SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor is a hot new program that will help with your spelling skills no matter what your grade level." "An impressively simple user interface makes SPELLBOUND! a wise choice among even the most popular commercial programs." SHAREWARE MAGAZINE Vol. VI No. 4 July-August 1991 In addition, in the November-December 1991 issue of Shareware Magazine, in an article entitled, "Be a Shareware Santa", The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor was recommended as one of 10 programs which would make great gifts for the holidays. HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL METHOD! A unique and highly successful method is employed which has resulted in many testimonials of spelling grades being improved by as much as 3 grade points! EXHAUSTIVE IN FUNCTIONALITY! Word list creation, editing, viewing, and maintenance functions as well as a full battery of teacher tools, grading and reports, combined with an impressively simple user interface make this program the wisest choice among even the most popular commercial programs. Many people have abandoned their favorite commercial program in favor of The SPELLBOUND! Spelling Tutor. NOT CRIPPLED OR DISABLED IN ANY WAY! This is the full version of the program. Nothing has been crippled or disabled. PROFESSIONALS, USE FOR TUTORING STAFF IN ESOTERIC TERMS! If you need to learn an esoteric vocabulary such as for the medical and legal professions, this is the ideal system for you. Indeed a high percentage of registrations received so far have come from professionals who use it to tutor their office personnel in the correct spelling of various esoteric terms. ANIMATED GRAPHICS AND MUSIC FOR CHILDREN! For children, there are graphics in the form of animated Smileys who cheer the child on and shed tears when a word is misspelled. (Funny, but most adults run the program with the smileys on!) COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZEABLE TO EACH USER! The program is entirely configurable to each user in terms of colors, background, etc. In addition, you may customize how you are tested or tutored. It has both a tutor and test mode. In test mode, you are graded and your score is saved to a personal file from which either a personal report or an entire class report may be generated. VARIOUS REPORTS, PERSONAL DIFFICULT WORD LISTS CREATED AUTOMATICALLY! The program creates a personal difficult word list for each student upon which the student may be tested when the list has reached sufficient size to become a word list. NEW FEATURES IN 2.10 It now has a complete File Manager, allows words up to 36 characters in length, and allows you to shuffle the words in a set so that they are not presented in the same order. In addition, with the registered version you can now create Word Search Puzzles with any set of words from within the program which can then be sent to your printer!