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Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program

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Re: Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program

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Post by jdewerd »

usgroup wrote: post #3
ldayley wrote: post #2

I was pretty young when I last saw web pages look like this but it warms my heart to see one again (unmodified since October 2001!). I think I’m going to find a way to get this running on an old machine this week…

Truly. Immediately awash with nostalgia. Although I do feel its missing a spinning GIF, a visit counter and a visitors book :-)

Haha, yep. Under construction!

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Post by [deleted] »

pimlottc wrote: post #8

The screenshots are very confusing to me... it appears to be a Windows (95?) application, with variable width fonts, graphs, mouse support [0], but then certain elements, like the menu [1], look like a class DOS apps, with fixed width fonts and ANSI line drawing characters. Some screens, like data tables [2], look like they're completely DOS-based, while others have a weird combination of DOS and Windows elements [3]…

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Re: Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program

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Post by RankingMember »

Aloha wrote: post #5

This looks pretty neat to play around with, too bad the download link appears dead.

> Only infrequently is there a download problem. But if you are unable to download from your present location, please send me an e-mail (with your e-mail address clearly indicated), and I will send you, as an e-mail attachment, the same Nukefix program that would normally be downloaded.

> It would be helpful if you could include a very short description of the difficulty you had. Thanks.

http://www.nukefix.org/help1.html

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Post by seabass-labrax »

mike_d wrote: post #6

If you want less Excel and more Wargames in your nuclear simulations, DEFCON is fun to spend a few hours in once in a while. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/

Given that the slogan of DEFCON is "Everybody Dies" and the slogan of Nukefix is "The Challenge Is To Develop a Safer World", I think they have somewhat different victory conditions... As a resident of one of the nine countries possessing nuclear weapons, I'd prefer that people gave the latter slogan more attention than the former!

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Post by s0adex »

bee_rider wrote: post #15

The website looks like it hasn’t been updated in decades, but did they add the bit about the epidemic recently or should we be worried that these folks just about predicted the present?

Looking at the wayback machine, it seems the Epidemic text is there as early as 2001. But you shouldn't be worried, as the prediction has been made earlier than that and it's just simple mathematics (Population*Time=Pathogen Evolution)
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