Testers are needed for the mac classic binaries of the latest release of RasMol. The MacBinary of the PPC binary is available at: http://blondie.dowling.edu/frs/download.php/frs/download.php/126/RasMac_PPC.bin and the MacBinary of the 68K binary is available at: http://blondie.dowling.edu/frs/download.php/frs/download.php/127/RasMac_68K.bin and the source kit is available at: http://blondie.dowling.edu/frs/download.php/frs/download.php/128/rasmol_2.7.3.1_ru_5Nov06.tar.gz These binaries are 32-bit (millions of colors) versions. The only difference between this source kit and the source kit for the recently released test version used in the windows installer is an updated RasMac.r with new icons. Builds from source for the PPC should be done with CodeWarrior 9. Builds from source for the 68K should be done with CodeWarrior 5.3. This is the Mac Classic adaption of the Russified RasMol_2.7.3.1_RU_Windows, extending the Russian translation to PPC and 68K Mac Classic environments. The PPC version uses InternetConfig and requires features normally seen only in Mac OS 8.5 and above. The 68K version does not use InternetConfig. As with the windows version this version incorporates the new Russian translations of menus and messages by Gregory A. Pozhvanov, in addition to the previously available, English, Spanish, Italian and French versions. Our thanks to Isabel Servan Martinez, Jose Miguel Fernandez Fernandez, Fernando Gabriel Ranea, Jean-Pierre Demailly, Giuseppe Martini, Giovanni Paolella, A. Davassi, M. Masullo, C. Liotto for the currently available translations, as well as to G. Pozhvanov for this new Russian translation and to Mamoru Yamanish, who is working on the Japanese version and improvements to integration with Mac OS X. We believe that the changes in this version are close to being ready for full release, with the following items on the updated "punch list": 1. Corrections to the icon masks (now mac as well as windows) 2. Final adaptation for Mac classic with an installer 3. Alignment of changes to the Unix/Linux/Mac OS X X11 versions These Mac Classic versions are intended for users of Mac OS 8 or 9. Please note that these versions will not run on Intel-based Macs without third party software to emulate a Mac Vlassic environment. These versions will run on Mac OS X on PPC-based systems that support the Mac Classic environment, but such use requires a fixup to data and script file types. For example, if you have the program SetFile in /Developer/Tools, and are using the C-shell set setfile=/Developer/Tools/SetFile foreach file (*.pdb *.cif *.ent *.PDB *.CIF *.ENT) $setfile -c "RSML" -t "TEXT" $file will make the usual data types visible to classic versions of RasMol under OS X running Classic. -- H. J. Bernstein -- ===================================================== Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121 Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769 Office: +1-631-244-3035 Lab (KSC 020): +1-631-244-3451 yaya at dowling.edu =====================================================