Oakflat Nuclear Power Plant Simulator in DOSBox

[the1log]

played when I was 9 and and I used to get to the end of year/month page and have to peform repairs and it would crash.

[junkhead1984]

I used to play this when I was about 7, I think!  Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Agreed completely about game consoles not capable of providing this experience. I'm a PC gamer at heart, always will be. I do think some newer games in the FPS genre are very good, but those don't exist on consoles, only PC. Check out ArmA 2, for instance. Extremely in-depth game based off of a real military simulator, VBS2.

[joachim2464]

This is the education program used for the chernobyl operators.

[kjah11]

i like your voice

go work at the radio dude, ;D

[magicstix0r]

Most...boring...game....ever..­..

[RogueFrisson]

"this is just gaming at its finest"

._.

"i'm having way too much fun"

o_o

...

what?

[TheHalflife123]

btw are those core temp realistic?

[TheHalflife123]

just play this and you can go to work in nuclear plant :D

[Multimine]

Hi, do you know how to slow the simulation rate? Because days go by much faster for em than in your simulation and it makes it impossible to control the reactor core temperature. Thanks.

[Dewayneyork1]

One of my all time favorite games was Chernobyl. It was for the old commodore 64 computer. I miss playing with that old thing.

[luca90pr]

i can't operate the PPRV OPEN and the PRCP ON commands: it just opens or starts the pump for a while, then the program immediately stops/closes it. why does it do that?

[djtowo]

how do you change the speed of the game?

[Umbra360]

@djtowo CTRL and F11

[LTandrius1]

demu(DOT)org/pages/view.php?re­f=1172&search=&order_by=rating­&offset=0&archive=0&k= this worked for me! You will need DosBox 0.74 to run it! This little game is GodAwesome!

[killerbaumann]

Where I can download this simulator? I've only found version 1.20

Can someone help me please?

[Kg277]

Yhepperz!! This does indeed beat crysis and guitar hero and all those other twitch fps games!

[boredwithusernames]

Just came across this, never knew this game existed. Found it on the net and downloaded it. Pure fun... thanks for sharing ;)

[HWGuyEG]

Heh you're forgetting when you change the rods there's a big lag for things to take effect so if if you get things heating fast you gotta plop them.

[artiskadils]

where I can get this simulator?

[tecnobrains]

@MrGermanBratwurst yeah, that version is cool, but it is missing about 20 commands. actually, it lacks the ability to enter commands and you only have the most basic controls. Also, it is not well programmed, and some buttons, when pressed, will not be able to change states after having been pressed.

[MrGermanBratwurst]

Guys there is a newer version for XP/Vista etc.

gamtech(DOT)com/oakflat.aspx

[spartank007]

yeah so muuuch better than halo

lol

[MegamanZ4]

Okay, couple notes from my experience:

A) Percent Out needs to match the Percent Demand (immediately to the right of it). Inputting the command "DEMAND ON" will make it change every so often.

B) main methods of controlling percent out include VALVE [1/2] [OPEN/CLOSE] (open one to halve output) and adjusting the Secondary Coolant Pump. SCP should be higher than PCP, given max coolant levels. Something like 9-Rod/79-PCP/89-SCP works fine for a start and doesn't put too much damage on initially.

[ashlandrailroad]

@MegamanZ4 thanks



[ashlandrailroad]

do you know how to reset a turbine trip and how to fix damage

[LateBlt]

@ashlandrailroad No, sorry. Read the manual.

[nsawilla]

@LateBlt

here: textfiles(DOT)com/gamefest2/SO­FT/MORE8/PRO12/OAKFLAT(DOT)HLP­

[MegamanZ4]

@ashlandrailroad The "proper" commands to do it appear to be borked in both 3.0sw and 3.1sw (at least in DOSBOX). The command AUTO SHUTDOWN will work if you can get the core temperature to 65 degrees. the proper commands are "repairs" for repairing damage and "refuel" for refueling, when at 65 degrees. They don't work in DOSBOX, creating an infinite loop. AUTO SHUTDOWN does work, however, and will repair and refuel.

As I type this, I am repairing 84% damage, which will put me at over 8000 days.

[ashlandrailroad]

how fast is your cycle rate becaus mine is at 3000 cycles and i dont have any time to resonde before a melt down do you know how to slow down your cycles rate

[LateBlt]

@ashlandrailroad About 400 cycles is probably a reasonable speed to start with. You can control your cycles in DOSBox with the CTRL-F11 and CTRL-F12 keystrokes.

[ashlandrailroad]

@LateBlt thanks i will try that

[jackhold22]

@LateBlt that dosent rely work that just makes it faster

[greytale]

I've never seen such a thing... but really, that is pretty cool!

I imagine that (at one point) software that was in many ways similar to this... was actually responsible for helping to run such a place (a power plant of any/many kinds).

Still, I'm curious... WAS this released as a "game", or was it more of a training tool?

[LateBlt]

@greytale I'm pretty sure that this particular program was intended for entertainment rather than as a serious training tool. It's not *quite* detailed enough to actually train someone to operate a nuclear power plant.

[miciso666]

ending sweet XD i knew you would do that! after all that boredom :D mmm lets get a nuclear meltdown! and yes autism for the win kinda ^^

[DaveIsParamount]

of all the videos on youtube, i didnt expect to find myself so intrigued as with this :). I remember the good old days of pre-windows gaming and will now head off to get this one :)

[imanerd36]

To all the people making fun of Asperger's and Autism, you can thank them for having a computer, having power for your computer, and for having a house to live in. All of those things require engineering, often jobs which people with Aspgerer's have. Many believe that Tesla(the man who discovered the AC current[which you are using right now probably had it]), as does Bill gates

[DJChryZis]

really nice game^^

but when i shut down the reactor for repairing the game in dosbox always freezes

any idea why?

[Jeppzon86]

the simulator can uses in windows vista?

[LateBlt]

If you use DOSBox, sure. Since this game is text-mode, it might even run natively in Vista, but I would run it in DOSBox anyway; that way you could full-screen the game instead of playing in a window (since Vista doesn't support full-screen mode for console programs).

[todkapuz]

reminds me of the boiler water reactor simulator... while that is actually a windows game, it has very good physics, and actually requires you to follow full control on removing selective control rods and sequences. but what can I say, I enjoy radiation in general, so I find it fun.

[zombierobopirate]

i really think you would enjoy dwarf fortress...

[golu6969]

I love it ..I can also play it for hours

[curtin94]

u kno what i actually get a lot of fun out of this game

[pvtdonut54]

You need to be very bored to play this.

[FuckTheFetus]

AUTISM

[LateBlt]

FOR THE WIN!

[simple11q]

Love it! We need more unique games like this.

[z300inc]

i favorited this in case i ever have trouble getting to sleep, just watching this guy go through the game was making me drowsy, couldn't imagine playing it

[FuckTheFetus]

people with aspergers?

[FuckTheFetus]

what market is this game made for? nuclear power plant workers who want to pretend to do their job at home? people with ocd?

[klaptrap]

eskimos.

[orangie84]

of course for the first person shooter game people.

you could maybe have a setting on the game where you have to protect the plant from maybe Muslim terrorists!! you would be able to walk all throughout the plant keeping it safe when a threat arrives.or just walk around to see it!!(oh now i am so sad the playstation or xbox doesn't make a game like this.) tell me would that not be super cool??? I mean you could be the controller and do the same educational brain teaser to keep the plant running

[orangie84]

I was going to say the exact same thing..

this does look like the older games you used to find for the commodore (or the old apple computers like the apple 2C or) actually it is quite shameful xbox or playstation or the likes doesn't make games like this..

you would be able to actually see the plant you are controlling.. actually see it melt down.. (big flash pause loud rumble huge ball of fire that errupts into a mushroom cloud with a heat wave blast that rips out in a giant circle

[cartoonfan1920s]

This game reminds me of the old commodore PET games. I believe Commodore Educational Software issued a version of this game around 1979-1982...

[dieselscience]

OakFLAT, that's funny. I used to live in Knoxville and I saw the Oak Ridge museum and visitor's center in the mid '80s before they started shutting them down.

[slamshedida]

i tried to google itt..but no results were found for that file. im downloading it via torrent ..but its taking forever.

could u upload it somewhere ( rapidshare) ..?

it'll help me in my studies. Thanks Alot.

[NarutoUzumaki953]

do you still have it?

[wbpd548]

ive been googling it and I still cant find it.

[LateBlt]

I just Googled "oakflat.zip" and came up with almost 10 hits.

[viperxeon]

what happens after a meltdown? dose the game end?

[LateBlt]

Yes. Which is exactly what happened at the end of this video.

[tufnaman]

hello could you please tell me where can i get this game like download it or something... thx

[LateBlt]

Have you tried Googling it, like I said before?

[tufnaman]

yes and i found the sim but other version than this one its not DOS

[IckeSaPicke]

Very nice game. This is gaming at is finest!:D

[blytqb]

awesome game. I'm of the same opinion as yours. Today there's no really amusing game. We simply play the less worst ones.. :(

[BigDAS]

Tried Oakflat32 yet?

[LateBlt]

It's a Microsoft Windows program.

[BigDAS]

Correct, it is produced by GamTtech, however it seems to be unavailable. There is also a version for the Commodore 64 which is downloadable as a C-64 Emulator disk image.

[LateBlt]

"It's a Microsoft Windows program" means "I would rather avoid running that program." In this case, there's some redemption in the fact that it appears to be a 16-bit Windows application, but still.

[cutterschoicenotmine]

great game. your right, no such fun on a console.

[SovietIreland]

Hi

Do you know were I can download this game.

Thanks

[LateBlt]

Just Google it. It's not hard to find at all.

[NarutoUzumaki953]

it is now... i cant find it anywhere

[NarutoUzumaki953]

i did find a earlier version of it (1.something) but it doesnt look like this at all

[hammy559]

A terrorist training tool!

[LateBlt]

Indeed! Along with every flight simulator in the world...

[Bastiest]

Where do you find these silly old VGA games anyways? Or more likely, how can you remember all of these stuff? There are like, tons of old good games which names I don't even remember.

[LateBlt]

Actually, I'm not sure that this game counts as VGA, since it's text-mode... Probably more like EGA. I got it off the Gamefest CD, a nice little shovelware compilation of shareware games.

[BigDAS]

Sharewareheaven/Games