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From: "Rick Coleman"
To: "Bruce Thomas"
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 8:32 PM
Subject: RE: Photo Mover

Hi Bruce,

I have decided to release Photo Mover and the other programs on the Photo Mover disk to the public domain. I would appreciate it if you would go ahead and upload Photo Mover to the appropriate places. I wouldn't even know where to start. If you can, include my contact info, I am still available to answer questions. Could you send me the text of the article you will be writing?

Thanks,

Rick Coleman
P.O. Box 44
Sheridan, WY, U.S.A. 82801

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The article that Rick is referring to is the following piece I put together for the October 2001 (it was running behind) Lucky Report newsletter.

Bruce Thomas

Mover V3.0 Disk

In keeping with the Visual Commodore theme of this issue we are going to take a quick look at some very handy GEOS files from Rick Coleman. Rick created Photo Mover V1.0 in 1989 and released his Mover V3.0 disk in 1993. This disk contains Photo Mover V3.0 and Text Mover V3.0 in 40 and 80-column versions. Also on the disk are an instruction file in GeoWrite format, a font for the dox file, Desk Accessories to change the Printer or Input Driver and a number of Photo Albums.

The main Mover programs provide an easy method to organize your collection of Photo Scraps and Text Scraps if you have multiple albums. I like to use Photo Mover to get all the photos I plan to use for a project into one Album so that my work is not hampered later by searching multiple albums for the picture I want.

When you start the programs you will find an easy to use interface. Full support for up to 100 albums on any of 4 drives is provided. Both programs provide support for V1.0 and V2.1 Albums. This is very handy since it is not possible to have Photo Manager V1.0 and V2.1 on the same disk. Another handy benefit of this support comes from the fact the V1.0 albums could hold 120 images while V2.1 albums can only hold 60 images. If you open a V1.0 album and select all the images (use the Toggle box) you can move them all into a V2.1 album. Once the first 60 images are copied you will have the chance to create a second V2.1 album and the copy process will continue. If the images in your V2.1 albums have names these are copied to new V2.1 albums also.

Another feature that I really like is the extra large display window. In Photo Manager it is often possible to have graphics that are too big for the display window. While you can always scroll the window around to see the rest of the image it is nice that Photo Mover has an extra large display to start with.

While preparing this issue of the Lucky Report I thought about Photo Mover and how much I appreciate using it. I ordered it from Rick in 1995 after reading a review in Commodore World #5. I also wrote a bit about it in Commodore World #25. I contacted Rick to ask about availability and if he was still supporting the software. He told me that he still has some 64's and a 128 but none of them are setup and in use at the moment. He felt he could still support the programs but that it would likely be more practical to release them to the Public Domain.

So, as of March 31, 2002, Rick Coleman's Mover 3.0 disk is now Public Domain. I have created a web page where the files can be downloaded. The files are available in geoZip format, geoPack format and Wraptor'ed format. Follow the MoverV3 link at http://www.edmc.net/cue.

If you have any questions Rick is available via snail mail to:

Rick Coleman
P.O. Box 44
Sheridan, WY, U.S.A. 82801

enGEOy your Commodore!