Chemistry Game Mac OS

It used to be that Mac users were a relatively small group, mostly composed of A/V nerds and graphic designers. And while these disciplines still account for a large portion of Mac people, Apple has gained quite a good deal more of the personal computer market share in recent years. Despite that, the world of non-console gaming doesn't quite reflect this change yet, as evidenced by the fact that the term 'PC gaming' is still generally the preferred nomenclature without actually applying to the OS X.

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DWSIM is an open source, CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator for Windows, Linux and macOS systems. Written in VB.NET and C#, DWSIM features a comprehensive set of unit operations, advanced thermodynamic models, support for reacting systems, petroleum characterization tools and a fully-featured graphical interface.

This is slowly changing. The days of attempting to play PC-only titles in a virtual machine are (thankfully) starting to be a thing of the past. Quite a few titles have been ported over to OS X in the past year or so, and it looks as though more and more developers are starting to realize that PC gamer should also include the Mac users. Heck, Steam got the right idea with porting over to the Mac, so have others. Here's a roundup of some of the most popular titles that are now available for OS X.

Torchlight

Like a prettier, smaller version of 'Diablo II', this action RPG manages to take most of the good aspects of overhead hack and slash games and add a few original touches which make it fairly addictive. Play as a member of one of three character classes who is tasked by Syl, a sage who has lost her mentor, Alric somewhere in a mine beneath the city of Torchlight. The mine is filled with Ember, a substance which is known to imbue both objects and people with magical abilities, but also corrupts the minds of any living creatures with whom it comes into contact for prolonged periods.

Further still beneath the mines are ruined palaces, hanging gardens and other stranger labyrinths filled with monsters and loot. The player is accompanied by a pet in the form of a cat or dog who can carry extra items, aid in fights, heal, and sell off unwanted treasure without the player having to port back into town. While it's not the most nuanced plot of all time, this game is more than an adequate substitute for those who can no longer hold their breath waiting for Blizzard to release 'Diablo III'.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Few games can reduce a grown man to whimpers and tears. This game is one of them.

At the start of the game, the main character awakens in what appears to be the entryway of a castle with no clue as to his identity. He soon finds a note from himself, which reveals that his name is Daniel and that he has forced himself to forget the circumstances under which he arrived at the castle. The note also warns him that he is being hunted by a 'shadow'. Thus begins Daniel's descent into the castle (and- dun dun DUN- The Darkness), where he must discover, via a series of flashbacks, just what the hell is going on, and how to stop it. 'Amnesia' is all from the first person perspective, though to call it a 'shooter' would be misleading, since Daniel cannot actually fight anything. He must stay within areas of light in order to remain sane, and can collect tinderboxes and oil for his lantern. However, he can't stay in the light all the time, or else he will be seen. And if he is seen, he will be attacked. Even if he can't see what's attacking him.

Diablo 3

Whether you love it or hate it, Diablo 3 is arguably one of the best action RPGs ever made. Superior to any of its predecessors, Diablo 3 offers a host of new features, gameplay changes, and, of course, another adventure in the dark world of Sanctuary.

Additions like the new crafting and skill rune systems should expand the experience without straying too far from franchise roots, while alterations to the core gameplay should help to streamline things considerably.

Instead, they've helped eliminate the minor nuisances you had to deal with in the prior games. No more manually picking up each last pile of gold. No more tedious inventory management. This is a smarter, faster version of the Diablo we all know and love, and that's definitely something to be excited about.

Unfortunately, the inclusion of the in-game auction house may hamper some of the enjoyment players may have with the game, but it isn't a deal breaker. Beneath its problems, the game is still a solid action RPG.

Machinarium

Diminutive robot protagonist Josef finds himself in what appears to be a junkyard. After a brief tutorial in which actions and abilities are demonstrated, it is made clear through a few cartoonish flashbacks that some bad robots wearing black hats kidnapped Josef's girlfriend, and strong-armed the little robot himself out of the robot city. Josef then proceeds to re-enter the robot city in pursuit of his lost girlfriend, only to discover that the Black Cap Brotherhood has planted a bomb in the robot city. Josef must then solve a series of extremely creative visual puzzles in order to free his lady, disarm the bomb, and save the city. The soundtrack is particularly amazing, the artwork is charming, but 'Machinarium' is the sort of experience that cannot really be described in any way that will do it proper justice. Just play the game.

Bioshock

Filled with dieselpunk eye candy and tough moral decisions, this eponymous first chapter of the 'Bioshock' series is basically a big middle finger in the collective face of Ayn Rand enthusiasts, proving to many doubters outside the gaming subculture that videogames could be more than just mindless gore-fests.

The player assumes the role of Jack, who has come upon the fallen underwater city of Rapture, built by uber-capitalist businessman Andrew Ryan. Due to an increasing discrepancy between the rich and the poor, and human dependence upon a substance known as ADAM, Rapture has suffered a catastrophic revolt. Jack has survived a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean only to find his way under the surface to Rapture, guided by a man named Atlas. Jack must then make his way through the city, encountering Little Sisters, the carriers of the ADAM, and Big Daddies, the guardians of the Little Sisters. Throughout a series of quests, the truth is slowly revealed to be even stranger than the initial setup.

BioShock Infinite will also soon be hitting the MAC Store in Summer 2013

Left 4 Dead series

Though both of these titles have been out for a few years now, they were only ported to OS X and made available through Steam just last fall, to the enjoyment of all. There are obviously a plethora of zombie-related games out there, and no one would blame a person for being sick and tired of all the lurching and shambling. However, both of the Left 4 Dead games are particularly intriguing in that the co-op mode doesn't just involve playing together, or helping each other out. In certain instances, a player actually needs his or her co-players, like when the player respawns in a locked closet, or needs healing but is not carrying any form of medicine. Teammates can bring one another back from the brink of death with a defibrillator or lure the infected away from other teammates with a pipe bomb. So basically, short of a space virus that actually causes the zombocalypse to happen, this is probably the most realistic simulations available in terms of the need for teamwork. Even though the likelihood of magically finding guns and defibrillators lying around in real life is kinda dubious.

Portal Series

Originally bundled in Valve's 2007 Orange Box for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, this first person puzzle-platformer was intended to be a small bonus game. However, it ended up being so wildly popular that it was ported to OS X and released in May of 2010 via Steam. In a series of jump, gravity and timing puzzles with teleportation as the main mechanic of gameplay, the player (who we eventually learn is a woman named Chell) must overcome increasingly difficult test chamber scenarios at an Aperture Science research facility. Chell is at first guided and then taunted by an AI named GLaDOS, who promises 'cake and grief counseling' should Chell complete the experiment satisfactorily.

Like its predecessor, Portal 2 is also very much worth playing. Set hundreds of years after the events of the first game, the Aperture Science labs are in a dilapidated state, and allow for you to discover what happened at the laboratory once and for all.

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The clever gameplay mechanics from the first game return, and are bolstered by a host of all new puzzles involving various forms of liquid paint, lasers, and other physics-bending materials.

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

This sequel was a long time coming. Thankfully, it shipped for PC and OS X at the same time. The story picks up four years after the events of the original Starcraft, and follows an insurgent group attempting to make its way across the Terran Dominion. Non-linear gameplay with regard to the campaigns keeps the game interesting, and is a minor departure from the original. However, the order in which the campaigns are done will not interrupt the narrative.

Units remain largely the same, with some additional specialized units available only for campaign play and not in regular multi-player, such as the Terran Wraith, Vulture, and Diamondback. There is also a map editor, similar to the original StarEdit, which allows for customization of terrain and campaigns.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Firaxis's XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a true successor to the turn-based strategy game series by Microprose. XCOM: Enemy Unknown sees the invasion of our cities by an extraterrestrial force that seeks, it seems, to purge mankind from the face of the planet.

Players are tasked with controlling a squad of earth's finest soldiers to take on the alien menace head-on in turn-based combat in locations ranging from dense urban environments to labyrinthine alien structures.

Revived by the makers of Civilization, the new XCOM streamlines everything that made the original title a little annoying to play through and improves upon all of its best qualities for a modern, turn-based strategy game that's like no other.

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In addition to being released on the console, the game is quite thankfully playable on both the PC and Mac.

Minecraft

Minecraft began as a PC-only game, but it's since been ported over to the Mac and Linux, where it has enjoyed regular updates consistent with the PC version of the game.

The game's popularity can be attributed to the fact that it plays like a sort of multiplayer game of Lego, in which players can craft castles and kingdoms to their hearts content, or explore the procedurally generated wilderness for adventures that are unlike anything they've ever encountered.

Played both offline and online, the game is fully compatible with its PC and Linux counterparts so friends and family can play the game with each other on servers regardless of whether they're running the game on Windows or the Mac's OS X.

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Other awesome games on Mac OS X

Borderlands 2: The framerate may not be the best for the Mac version of Borderlands 2, which is why we haven't thought to include it on this list. When Aspyr (they're handling the port) sharpens up the game' well consider it.

Braid

World of Goo

Pre-compiled binaries of computational chemistry programs can save the time and trouble of obtaining and compiling the program source code.

The binaries discussed on this page have been tested on Mac OS X 10.5.

Chemistry Game Mac Os X

MOPAC 7

  1. Obtain the MOPAC 7 binary
    MOPAC 7 is public domain and the pre-compiled binary code mopac7.exe.tar.gz can be obtained from the WebMO website
  2. Uncompress MOPAC 7 binary
    Open your download directory in Finder and double-click the mopac7.tar or mopac7.exe.tar.gz file to uncompress mopac.exe. If this does not occur automatically, open a terminal session and uncompress mopac.exe manually
    $ cd {download_dir}
    $ tar xf mopac7.tar
    or
    $ tar xzf mopac7.exe.tar.gz
  3. Install MOPAC 7 binary
    From a terminal session
    $ sudo bash (enter password)
    # mkdir -p /Applications/chemistry/mopac7
    # cd /Applications/chemistry/mopac7
    # cp -p {download_dir}/mopac.exe
    # chown root:admin mopac.exe
    # exit
  4. Configure WebMO to use MOPAC 7 as a computational engine
    • Login to WebMO as user 'admin'
    • Click 'Interface Manager' to enable the interfaces to any computational chemistry packages that you have installed on your system
    • Click the 'Enable Inerface' icon for MOPAC
    • Click the 'Edit Interface' icon to configure the MOPAC interface
    • Edit entries as follows and click Submit
      • Mopac Version: Mopac 7
      • Mopac path: /Applications/chemistry/mopac7/mopac.exe
      • External parameter dir:
    • Click 'Return', 'Return to Admin', and 'Logout' to exit the WebMO administration pages
  5. Login as a WebMO user, and run a test job using MOPAC as the computational engine

MOPAC 2009

  1. Request license (free for academic use) from MOPAC 2009 website:
    http://www.openmopac.net/download-c.html
    A license of the form 12345678a12345678 will be sent to you in an email message
  2. Download MOPAC2009 for Macintosh (MOPAC2009_for_Macintosh.zip) from
    http://www.openmopac.net/Download_MOPAC_Executable_Step2.html
  3. Install MOPAC2009 binary
    From a terminal session
    $ cd {download_dir}
    $ mkdir mopac2009
    $ cd mopac2009
    $ unzip ../MOPAC2009_for_Macintosh.zip
    $ sudo bash (enter password)
    # mkdir -p /Applications/chemistry/mopac
    # cd /Applications/chemistry/mopac
    # cp -p {download_dir}/mopac2009/MOPAC2009.exe .
    # chown root:admin MOPAC2009.exe
    # chmod 755 MOPAC2009.exe
    # xattr -d com.apple.quarantine MOPAC2009.exe
  4. Install MOPAC2009 license
    # export MOPAC_LICENSE=/Applications/chemistry/mopac/
    # /Applications/chemistry/mopac/MOPAC2009.exe {license}
    (press {Return} twice, type 'Yes', and press {Return} as prompted, which creates the file password_for_mopac2009)
  5. Run a test job from the command line
    $ cd ~
    $ mkdir -p test/mopac2009
    $ cd test/mopac2009
    $ cp -p {download_dir}/mopac2009/Example data set.mop h2co.mop
    $ export MOPAC_LICENSE=/Applications/chemistry/mopac/
    $ /Applications/chemistry/mopac/MOPAC2009.exe h2co.mop
    $ more h2co.out
  6. Configure WebMO to use Mopac 2009 as a computational engine
    • Login to WebMO as user 'admin'
    • Click 'Interface Manager' to enable the interfaces to any computational chemistry packages that you have installed on your system
    • Click the 'Enable' button for Mopac
    • Click 'Edit' to configure the MOPAC interface
    • Verify that the entries are correct; if necessary, edit entries and click Submit
      • Mopac Version: Mopac 2009
      • Mopac path: /Applications/chemistry/mopac/MOPAC2009.exe
      • External parameter dir:
    • Click 'Return', 'Return to Admin', and 'Logout' to exit the WebMO administration page
  7. Login as a WebMO user, and run a test job using MOPAC as the computational engine
  8. MOPAC documentation
    The online manual for MOPAC2007 covers everything in MOPAC2009, except the MOZYME feature designed for linear scaling of larger molecules
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GAMESS

  1. Request a copy of the GAMESS binary
    Visit the GAMESS homepage, click 'How to get GAMESS', click 'obtaining GAMESS', click 'I agree to the above terms', enter your email address, choose the pre-compiled distribution for 'GAMESS version Mmm DD, YYYY R# for MacOS X', and click 'Submit Request'. An email with download instructions will be sent to you.
  2. Obtain the GAMESS binary
    Download the pre-compiled binary file appropriate for your CPU, e.g., gamess-OSX.Current.x86-64.tar.gz for a 64-bit x86 processor, using the username 'source' and the password in the email message that you received
  3. Safari will automatically uncompress the archive. If not, open a terminal session and uncompress the downloaded file manually
  4. Install GAMESS binary
    From a terminal session
    $ sudo bash (enter password)
    # mkdir -p /Applications/chemistry
    # cd /Applications/chemistry
    # tar xvf /{download_dir}/gamess-OSX.Current.x86-64.tar
    # chown -R root:admin gamess
  5. Note Mmm DD YYYY version of GAMESS
  6. Add a symbolic link to the gamess binary
    # cd gamess
    # ln -s gamess.*.x gamess.00.x
    # exit
  7. Configure WebMO to use GAMESS as a computational engine
    • Login to WebMO as user 'admin'
    • Click 'Interface Manager' to enable the interfaces to any computational chemistry packages that you have installed on your system
    • Click the 'Enable Inerface' icon for GAMESS
    • Click the 'Edit Interface' icon to configure the GAMESS interface
    • Edit entries as follows and click Submit
      • Gamess Version: Mmm DD YYYY
      • Gamess directory: /Applications/chemistry/gamess
      • Gamess binary: gamess.00.x
      • Ddikick binary: ddikick.x
    • Click 'Return', 'Return to Admin', and 'Logout' to exit the WebMO administration pages
  8. Login as a WebMO user, and run a test job using GAMESS as the computational engine

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GAUSSIAN 03

  1. Obtain Gaussian 03 binary
    Gaussian 03 is a commercial software product and must be purchased from Gaussian, Inc. Both source code and pre-compiled binary versions of Gaussian 03 are available. Please visit the Gaussian website for information about purchasing a 32-bit or 64-bit binary version of Gaussian 03 for Mac OS X.
  2. Setup gaussian group and add authorized users to this group
    Select Apple: System Preferences...: Accounts
    Click the lock in the lower-left to make changes, and enter an administrator name and password
    Click the + button, select New Account: Group, and enter Name: gaussian
    Click Create Group
    With the gaussian group highlighted, check the user accounts that are permitted to run gaussian, e.g., smith
    Click the lock in the lower-left corner to end making changes
    Add the webserver user (www in OS X 10.4, or _www in OS X 10.5) to the gaussian group. This must be done manually using terminal (Applications/Utilties/Terminal) because the webserver is not an ordinary user.
    In OS X 10.4,
    $ sudo dscl . -merge /Groups/gaussian GroupMembership www
    or in OS X 10.5,
    $ sudo dscl . -merge /Groups/gaussian GroupMembership _www
    Note: group permissions can be verified from terminal with
    or
    $ id -p _www
  3. Copy binary distribution from CD-ROM
    Create the new folder /Applications/chemistry
    Insert CD-ROM
    Copy /tar/*.TAZ from CD-ROM into /Applications/chemistry
    Eject CD-ROM
  4. Extract files and change permissions
    Run /Applications/Utilities/Terminal
    $ sudo bash
    # cd /Applications/chemistry
    # tar xzvf *.TAZ
    # chown -R root:gaussian g03
    # exit
  5. Optionally, setup gaussian environment and run a test job from terminal
    $ cd ~
    $ mkdir g03
    $ cd g03
    $ vi g03setup.sh
    export g03root=/Applications/chemistry
    export GAUSS_SCRDIR=/tmp
    source $g03root/g03/bsd/g03.profile
    $ cp -p /Applications/chemistry/g03/tests/com/test001.com test001.com
    $ cp -p /Applications/chemistry/g03/tests/ia64/test001.log test001.log.ia64
    $ source g03setup.sh
    $ g03 < test001.com > test001.log.osx
    $ tail test001.log.ia64
    $ tail test001.log.osx
  6. Configure WebMO to use Gaussian03 as a computational engine
    • Login to WebMO as user 'admin'
    • Click 'Interface Manager' to enable the interfaces to any computational chemistry packages that you have installed on your system
    • Click the 'Enable' button for Gaussian
    • Click 'Edit' to configure the Gaussian interface
    • Verify that the first two entries are correct:
      • Gaussian Version: Gaussian 03
      • Gaussian root directory: /Applications/chemistry
    • Click the 'Suggest' button to fill the remining entries
    • Click the 'Submit' button for the changes to take effect
    • Click 'Return', 'Return to Admin', and 'Logout' to exit the WebMO administration page
  7. Login as a WebMO user, and run a test job using Gaussian as the computational engine