Presentation of Chemsoft topics
Chemsoft offers support in several areas of Chemistry with emphasis
on educational aspects. The aim is to provide learning by hands-on
experience using computer simulation of phenomena and/or theoretical
principles. The older topics on Gasphysics, Chemical Kinetics, Statistical Thermostatics, and Spectroscopy (all in the Archive)
comprise lecture notes and demonstration programs developed by the
author during his academic teaching. In a simplified version for
gymnasium level similar topics are touched under Chem Education with more than 50 computer programs accompanied by introductions.
If you encounter problems when trying to run old Pascal programs on Windows XP, Vista, or 7, download
DOSbox, install it and set
cycles=max in the dosbox.conf file. Start
DOSbox and give the command
mount c d:\dosprogs followed by
C:, where d: is the HDD with some programs of the above packages in a folder 'dosprogs', e.g. 'gasphysics'. With
DOSbox all these programs run smoothly on
Windows x86 or x64, on most
Linux boxes and even on
Mac's, as well.
Newer Contributions
support those learning to apply Quantum Chemical
results to their daily chemical investigations. The requirement for
expensive workstations or (highly competitive) access to supercomputer
centers has prevented many chemists from supporting their arguments by
quantitative theory. There is no excuse today for not learning and
judiciously applying the powerful tools of Computational Chemistry, ready for the desktop!
