cwilms at stud.uni-frankfurt.de (Christian Wilms) wrote in message news:<1fekhyo.14aays22h3x2oN%cwilms at stud.uni-frankfurt.de>...
> Matt Jones <jonesmat at physiology.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> I would be very intrested in hearing how your first steps with Genesis
> on MacOS X were. Does it run without requiring an X-server?
I'll post my progress here.
I'm not sure Genesis -requires- an X-server (does it?), but they
recommend using XFree86/XDarwin, which is available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/.
>> I just decided, that I woul prfer going with Neuron, because it runs on
> more platforms and I like the "section"-concept for modelling neurons,
> compared to directly modelling single compartments in Genesis (or did I
> miss an important development here?).
I am not sure, but somehow I would be surprised if you couldn't assign
sections in Genesis and manipulate them as necessary. I'll let you
know what I find out.
>Does Genesis/MacOS X come with a
> running version of GMODL?
Again, not sure yet, but my understanding is that the OSX version is
complete.
Cheers,
Matt