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Bolkonskij
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on: July 05, 2023, 16:31
Today I've had some fun with ChemViewer 1.1 on System 7. It's a scientific application for one purpose - simulating molecules in 3D. How nerdy, I know ... but this allows to watch 'em molecules in motion without having to buy terribly expensive equipment first. A middle-class System 7 Mac is enough for that. Thought I'd share this with you, I've ended up pushing the whole thing to the Macintosh Garden for others to enjoy too: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/chemviewer Requirements? System 7.5 and up. The Readme says it's Power PC material but NativeChecker reports it as being a FAT application. There's actually so much great scientific software for System 7 that is still worth exploring. I also find them much more approachable than their often overloaded / bloated modern counterparts. Unfortunately, most System 7 era science software has faded into obscurity by now and is long forgotten. Even the Macintosh Garden has only a fraction of what was available. What are you favorites in terms of scientific System 7 software? |
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Last Edit: July 05, 2023, 16:36 by Bolkonskij
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MTT
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256 MB  Posts: 394 SSW7 Oldtimer
Reply #1 on: July 06, 2023, 08:03
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"Technically" NativeChecker is correct, it is a FAT application. More correctly, it is a PPC native application with a small 68k component. Typical for well crafted software of the period, developers would include a mini 68k executable component that would run if anyone attempted to launch the program on a 68k Mac. This was to inform the user that it was only able to run on PPC Macs, then gracefully exit the program without crashing the program or Mac. For example: StarOffice 3.1 installer's error message when attempting to install it on a 68k Mac. NativeChecker doesn't differentiate the two, it's more accurate to use Siddhartha's AppInfo program, linked in the comments section of the ChemViewer page.
Last Edit: July 06, 2023, 08:08 by MTT
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #2 on: July 06, 2023, 08:45
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Great, I wasn't aware of that but it's logical. Thanks MTT!
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wove
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Reply #3 on: July 07, 2023, 23:30
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The National Institute of Health <https://www.nih.gov> (modern browser of course) use to have lots of software and modudes for health research. Most the the software consists of modules written in "R" for MatLab which is available in the Macintosh Garden. I did a look through their current software and in honesty I am not sure what I all I found was. Much of the stuff appears to be shell scripts that run on Linux, BSD or OS X. Most older stand alone software appears to be for DOS. That is well beyond my education level. However it is a public agency so all of the material available falls in the public domain. So if you feel so inclined you can go diggings.
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