Scientific programs ported to RISC OS
Scientific programs ported to RISC OS
This page gives more information about scientific applications
available on RISC OS, mostly Fortran programs we have ported to
RISC OS including instructions for obtaining the programs themselves. They are all freely available for non-commercial use. For further details check the
main web sites listed with each program.
There are:
PGplot is a portable high level
Fortran graphics library, written for the display of astronomical data, but
useful for any scientific discipline.
Full information can be found on the web site
PGPlot (version 5.2.0);
Brief details and some example plots can be seen here
.
The RISC OS version for use with the AcornSoft Fortran Compiler is
available from here (size 413K)
and for the GNU Fortran from here.
Molecular plotting programs using PGLOT include:
- ORTEP III. Ortep is the Oak Ridge Thermal
Ellipsoid Plotting program,
first released in the early 1970s; this version, ORTEP III 1.0.0,
which uses PGplot graphics,
was released in 1996 and mounted on the Acorn by
'Fortran Friends'. Full information can be found on the website,
URL
http://www.ornl.gov/ortep/ortep.html.
Brief details and 12 example plots can be seen here
(size including images 82K)
31 Jan 2000
A revised version (1.0.3) is now available, details of the difference between
this and previous versions can be found on the main ORTEP III site. It
corrects an error found by Louis Farrugia, the author of
'Ortep 3 for Windows'.
The RISC OS version (1.0.3) is available from here
(size 217K). This uses PGPLOT which does not use the Desktop. If you would
be interested in a port of the 'Ortep3 for Windows' to the RISCOS Desktop
please contact us.
- STRUPLO this program plots molecules as polyhedra and outline spheres. It uses PGPlot in a similar way to ORTEP.
Brief details and some example plots can be seen here
(size including images 32K)
The RISCOS version is available to download from here (124K).
RASMOL
This program is most useful for displaying larger molecules such as proteins. It was not ported by us, but since it is a very useful program, we have added a link to it.
Page last updated 2 May 2005
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