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My favorite classic NPP simulator is SIMULA-C by Ralph Reuhl. I'm only finding this report [1] (from my comment history, hah), but both the C source code as well as MS-DOS executables were available. Back when I knew what the URL is, the Wayback Machine could fetch the .exe files but not the source archive.

Anyone remember this one? A screenshot can be found in the PDF at the end.

[1] https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:29043408

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This bring back memories?

https://web.archive.org/web/20020928111017/http://www.simula...

Yep! The German version contains a tutorial and a manual, that's why it's larger; unfortunately the Wayback Machine did not go back in time (since I last saw this page) to capture the source code from 2002. :)

I emailed the author to see if I could get the source code to update it for a modern platform. Given the amount of link rot since that time it is unlikely that he replies but hope is eternal.

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