Lee, Woonghee
Dear all,
I have released the POKY suite today.
You can obtain a copy from:
https://poky.clas.ucdenver.edu
Sparky users do not have to learn but to enjoy new and modern features. Once you experience, you cannot go back for sure.
Any issue reports are welcome.
Mac: Catalina or newer
Linux: Ubuntu 20.04 or newer
Windows: Windows 10 or newer
I’ve decided to require somewhat newer operating systems by default because technologies are fast-forwarding. However, you can try and see if older versions are fine. High Sierra is reported to be working.
Also, Apple Silicon Mac works with POKY as well.
Enjoy!
Woonghee
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Woonghee Lee, I.E.I.P., M.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Colorado Denver
1151 Arapahoe St. (Science Bldg.) Rm 4128A
Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA
Office: +1-303-315-7672
https://poky.clas.ucdenver.edu
https://clas.ucdenver.edu/chemistry/woonghee-lee
Shipping/Mailing Address:
Woonghee Lee
1201 5th St. UCD CHEM-194
P.O. Box 173364 (USPS)
Denver, CO 80204, USA
Gabriel C.
Just my 2 cents: the superiority of Poky over the older versions of the software (Sparky and NMRFAM-Sparky) lies not only in the fact that it was rewritten with modern language/tools/libraries making it perfectly compatible with the latest native versions of Mac, Windows, and Linux OS systems (and therefore future-proof), but it's the only version that will work on managed university/government/company computer for which the friendly folks in the IT Security Department have disabled virtualization and/or ssh access from/to NMR spectrometers (or to the internet altogether). NMRbox is a workaround solution that uses either VirtualBox (virtualization) or a VNC client that requires ssh access. Even if your institution allows you to connect a modern laptop (i.e., with a very high-resolution display) to NMRbox servers, resolution issues require some trial-and-error tweaking to make fonts legible (basically one needs to force one of many non-native lower display resolutions which then usually cause blurry peaks, fonts, crosshairs, arrows, etc.). Copying data back and forth is also required with the VNC route. Alternatively, SBGrid installs software on your computer, so it's native to the OS and you can use it with NMR data already on your hard disk, but it requires paying for an annual membership fee.
We are grateful to Woonghee for continuing to put so much time and effort into developing Poky, adding so many modern features, tools, and friendly documentation on YouTube and elsewhere, and are convinced that Poky is indeed the right tool that will likely continue to be developed and supported in the future. Furthermore, the active support in this User group is of high value and we hope that a larger NMR community will become more involved in guiding new users and answering questions. As Wonghee mentioned often in his posts, anyone who has used Sparky or NMRFAM-Sparky will be delighted not only to see that all the tools and commands work perfectly in Poky, but they are now better organized and more intuitive. Redundant help is provided seamlessly in drop-down menus, cheat sheets, popups, mouse-over hints, etc. New tools are added continuously and hopefully documented in a timely fashion.
In an era when even simplistic apps that were natively written for Macs and/or Windows fail to work left and right or are plagued by bugs, the fact that such a complex NMR software package as Poky works almost flawlessly on the latest OS versions of Mac/Windows/Linux is short of a miracle. Thank you Wonghee and collaborators!
Best,
Gabriel (using Poky installed on MacOS Monterey 12.6, CentOS 7, Suse Leap 15.4)