Molden works best with mopac93. moapc5.0/6.0 will in general be
ok. For ampac and vamp some things will work, while others may not.
Mopac2000 has recently been tested and most things seem to work. Support
for mopac2000 .aux files has been added.
To view orbitals and density you have to supply the mopac keyword
GRAPH. At the of the mopac run a .gpt file will have been
created. This is a binary file, so molden will only be able to
read it in on the same platform it was created. (In the molden distribution
there is a small program called unmullik which will convert a
binary .gpt file to an ascii one. The ascii version can be read by
molden on any platform.
There seem to be adapted versions of Mopac93 which write their own ascii
.gpt files, these files differ from the ascii files generated by
unmullik. One of these if supported when using the molden commandline
flag -t.
If you want Molden to display the intermediate geometries of an EF optimisation or TS saddle point, you have to supply the additional mopac keywords:
NOXYZ PRNT=2 COMPFG
If you want Molden to display the intermediate geometries of an IRC calculation add the mopac keywords:
XPRIO LARGEIf you want Molden to display the intermediate geometries of an STEP calculation add the mopac keywords:
NOXYZ
Beware of using non-readible characters on the output (such as the date in russian), molden will think it is dealing with a binary format (mopa c .gpt or msf).