- The Australian Mineral Collector - good advice about mineral collecting in Australia
- Bob's Rock Shop (USA)
- Plots the location of gemstones and precious minerals throughout Australia.
Plan your next Australian tour with the help of this program. You could
even take it with you and run it on an old laptop PC (only needs Windows
3.1 or higher). Intended as a companion for the great book "How and where
to find Gemstones in Australia" edited by Bill Myatt (Lansdowne Press,
1987).
Screen snapshot
![[sample screen 1]](gem1.jpg)
Last software update: December 1997, Version 1.4
This is a "runtime" Visual Basic 3.0 program which plots the locations of gemstones on a scalable map of Australia. It runs on any PC which has Windows 3.1 or higher. A mouse is essential. The program and VB runtime files are in a self-extracting ZIP file GEMZIP2.EXE (less than 300K compressed and about 500K installed). From the DOS prompt copy it to a temporary directory such as c:\temp. Enter GEMZIP2 to start the unzipping process. Enter INSTALL to create a directory VB_RUN and transfer the necessary files. The temporary files can then be deleted.
This is shareware - try before you buy (AU$40). Income goes towards further improvements to the program. See the README.TXT file that comes with the installation for more information.
See also:
![[sample screen 2]](gem2.jpg)
![[sample screen 3]](gem3.jpg)
Program and website copyright Michael Paine 1997
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