I am trying to use the FMO (Fragment Molecular Orbital) method which works to make large (thousands of atoms) molecules more palatable for ab initio computational quantum-chemical calculations on a PC. There's a really good GUI to help make the fragment input (for GAMESS in my case), called Facio (see link below to website). I have a Mac and have been trying to get Facio to work on it for a while. It was originally made for Windows but there is also a Mac version available to download on the website. The website seems to last have been updated for the OS Sierra but I have OS Catalina. Is there a way to make Facio (GUI for FMO) work on Mac OS Catalina? Thanks in advance for your help.
http://zzzfelis.sakura.ne.jp/index.html
Hello, There is no a way to make it work. Unfortunately, MacOS is completely moved to 64bit platform. Thus, there is no way to make 32-bit software work on macOS Catalina. If there is a 64 bit version for Windows, you could try with Wine package. It is not the best option but it works.
Hi Nelson David Arias Olivares and thank you so much for your answer! The Facio website has a Wineskin but it only works up to macOS Sierra. I ended up downloading the Windows ISO and setting it up with Bootcamp. Facio finally worked on there!
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