bwahaha
So, i downloaded the Source form Microsoft as posted above, along with an app that lets me extract files from withing a .msi (lesmisierable or something like that)
this allowed me to get the help files and some example physics files.
Installed the Visual C++ Express edition from microsofts site, un-flagged all of the files from the source archive as being "read only" (damn pricks) and re-compiled it.
It runs.. but its gestures are overly buggy, and its general un-responsive with its input, i am not sure if this is because i am running it on windows XP.
Eitherway, if its input and control set were better (has no copy + paste or even undo support
) then it would suit my purposes well, as it stands, its around 80% a case of get it right the first time, or start over.
Cheers
/tAK
ps: there is no open source version that looked "easy" to get runng.. now that i have done this, there was one on sourceforge that required compiling, i might give it a crack later.