Monday 13 April 2009

Running Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe 17 on Wine

Finally after a long time learning typing with Mavis Beacon 15, on Windows XP, through Virtual Box, i must take a stop. Doesn't mean i'm stop to learn but stop using it with Virtual Machine, because Mavis Beacon 17 (there is version 20 the newer version, but i think version 17 is much better than 20) now can be running on Wine.

But there are 2 problems after installing this mavis beacon:
1. no sound of "mavis music", "background music", and "mavis voiceover" when typing.
2. Alphanumeric being typed looks weird than the example being showed (look at the two picture below)



























For problem no.1, Actually, I don't know the solution until now :(. For Problem no.2, it can be solved by copying font file from Windows XP installation to "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts" (depends on path of your wine installation). According to my own test, this Mavis Beacon need 2 type font i.e times.ttf and comic.ttf (or cour.ttf). Both can be obtained from "C:\Windows\Fonts" default Windows XP installation folder. After finish copying the file, rerunning Mavis. Then.....
Voila...., its look normal now....:)

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