Development of this software has been assisted by support from the Australian Apple University Consortium, an international cooperative program between Apple Computer and Universities. One of its aims is to develop educational software for the Macintosh environment. It is designed to accompany the author's book "Exploring Chaos: Theory and Experiment", published by Perseus Books. Documentation on the software, as well as more than 100 student exercises which employ it, may be found in the book. However, the software is free for non commercial use without explicit permission from the author. All other rights reserved. Copyright ©1999 by Brian Davies.
After unpacking the archive "Chaos.sit", you should have a folder containing the files Chaos.html and ReadMe.html, and a sub-folder "Classes" containing 44 class files. The archive is compressed using Aladdin Systems DropStuff. You may need their free expander utility. (Note for Windows Users: The class files have names which are longer than eight characters, also a five character extension ".class". Unsuitable expanders may not handle this properly.)
To run Chaos for Java simply open a Java-enabled brower, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, then open the html file as a local file. Even though the file is local, it can be bookmarked in the usual way to avoid having to navigate through your file system each time you want to use the program.
It is a good idea to experiment with more than one browser (if you are able) and determine which is the most efficient and/or convenient for you.
On the Macintosh platform, installing and selecting the latest Mac OS Runtime for Java is also a good idea.
For general information on Java, visit the source at Sun's Java site.