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Interesting! The game reminds me a bit of another industrial simulation game called "Oakflat", a nuclear power plant operations simulator for MS-DOS (and later Windows).

The DOS version can be played on archive.org, but I'm not sure if it's possible to get the Windows version anymore.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oakflat_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

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To drift further off, there was also a container shipping simulation called Ports of Call.

https://archive.org/details/PortsOfCall

There are even new games that reminds me of ports of call, like https://store.steampowered.com/app/501080/Fishing_Barents_Se... and https://store.steampowered.com/app/227300/Euro_Truck_Simulat...

Is really relaxing to play them from time to time

I tried Euro Truck Simulator because I remember an old DOS truck game from back when quite fondly, but I found ETS to be rather tedious and repetitive, and all I want to do is to break the traffic rules to go faster, :p.

Did enjoy Farming Simulator as well, even if the version of the game I played looked like it was made 20 years ago. I wonder if the latest one is any better, I think I got it with PS Plus the other day.

I find ETS to be relaxing, I like long drives in real life to. I let my mind wonder while looking at the landscape and listening to music.

It's still being developed: https://www.portsofcall.de/

Wow, I have been looking for that for about a decade. I played it a few times at a friend's house as a child and was mesmerised.

I used to play that a ton as a teenager on my Amiga 500, but it just is not as much fun on an emulator, rose tinted glasses.

Yeah for some reason PoC was such a fun game!

Me too!! I thought I was the only one who'd ever heard of it

It is also being sold on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085260/Ports_of_Call_Cla...

I used to love doing the electronics run to Tokyo...I made bank every time!

On that note, does anyone know anything about SIMULA-C? It was a reasonably high-level PWR simulation, if I remember correctly, with a detailed description of its internal model. There is a paper floating around mentioning its use in training. But I can't even find its original website any more (and even when I could, the executable was not in the archive).

Found the paper, a screenshot is at the end of the referenced PDF (don't let the summary "fool" you, it's just bad OCR): https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:29043408

And I’m reminded of “oil imperium”... played that for hours - when I was young

Having spent a good amount of time failing to do anything but nuclear meltdown using this in my teens I remembered it and searched it out a year or so ago, surprised to see its still around and so are Gamtech the makers http://gamtech.com/oakflat.aspx

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