Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!djm From: djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: molecular modeling programs? Message-ID: <436@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 19 Sep 89 08:02:28 GMT References: Reply-To: djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) Organization: Edinburgh University Chemistry Lines: 20 In article zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary T. Smith) writes: > >Has anyone ever seen any public domain program that let one construct >models of molecules (and rotate them and print them and save/recall >models) for the ibm pc? > >Zach T. Smith (zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu) There is a program available on simtel20, PD1:CHEMICAL.ARC which might be what you're looking for. It certainly allows you to construct simple models and maybe rotate them, but you must remember that doing this sort of thing is a pretty tall order, and most packages are costly. If you can talk your budget into letting go of the money, Alchemy is available from Aldrich. Only one problem with this is that it has a copy protect bug (the disk is corrupted - I think that sectors 3&4 on tracks 79&80 on a 3.5" disk are formatted as 1x1024 bytes rather than 2x512 bytes) which greatly reduces the value of the product. I think it is by Evans & Sutherland. Hope this helps, Murff....