[HN Gopher] Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
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       Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
        
       Author : xk3
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-05-06 15:45 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nukefix.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nukefix.org)
        
       | ldayley wrote:
       | 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...
        
         | usgroup wrote:
         | Truly. Immediately awash with nostalgia. Although I do feel its
         | missing a spinning GIF, a visit counter and a visitors book :-)
        
           | jdewerd wrote:
           | Haha, yep. Under construction!
        
       | rtkwe wrote:
       | Wow blocked by my work filter for "Compromised Sites" wonder how
       | old that entry is.
        
         | baq wrote:
         | Screenshots look like early Windows 95, so ordovician give or
         | take a few MY.
        
       | Aloha wrote:
       | This looks pretty neat to play around with, too bad the download
       | link appears dead.
        
         | edm0nd wrote:
         | You can send $10 for a floppy disk version!
         | 
         | http://www.nukefix.org/purchase.html
        
         | RankingMember wrote:
         | > 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
        
         | netrap wrote:
         | The FTP works but it won't allow anonymous logins.
        
       | mike_d wrote:
       | 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/
        
         | seabass-labrax wrote:
         | 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!
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | 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] [4] [5].
       | 
       | Quite strange! I suppose perhaps it started life as a DOS
       | application and then moved to Windows, with old pages keeping the
       | same fonts/layouts to save time. Makes for an odd look...
       | 
       | 0: http://www.nukefix.org/pixx/stpage.gif
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       | 1: http://www.nukefix.org/pixx/stmenu.gif
       | 
       | 2: http://www.nukefix.org/pixx/twork.gif
       | 
       | 3: http://www.nukefix.org/pixx/preempt.gif
       | 
       | 4: http://www.nukefix.org/pixx/ageone.gif
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       | 5: http://www.nukefix.org/pixx/mseefran3.gif
        
         | GrumpyNl wrote:
         | Looks a lot like a old pascal program.
        
       | bee_rider wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | s0adex wrote:
         | 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)
        
       | ThinkBeat wrote:
       | Strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a
       | nice game of chess?
        
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