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

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You can send $10 for a floppy disk version!

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

None of my computers have floppy drives. :blushing-emoji:

Funny story, I wound up finding a bunch of my old Mac-formatted Zip disks a few months ago, and trying to extract data off of them was a wild, tangled mess of external SCSI enclosures, `ddrescue`, and then quick archiving it up onto the NAS before the drive or disk started making the famous clicking noises. Blows my mind we lived like that.

I have a USB floppy drive. 20 years ago, I saved it from being thrown out at work, and now I still have it. Well, I assume it works, haven’t actually used it in long time

Might be worth a shot. The original developer still seems to be alive and doing stuff at https://fixdst.com/

> 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

The FTP works but it won't allow anonymous logins.

what credentials work?

I've tried anon, no username/pass, etc

I'm flat out unable to connect right now but I wanted to try username anonymous, password my email address - that was the standard back in the day

#> telnet www.nukefix.org 21

  Trying 64.71.34.33...
  Connected to www.nukefix.org.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  220 Welcome.

USER anonymous

  331 Please specify the password.

PASS anonymous

  530 This FTP server does not accept anonymous logins.

oof.

According to ftp://retronn.de/archiv/old_cds/pcwelt_08_2000/pcw_mat/inhalt/PCW99.PDF page 2, this software was included on a 1999 German CD-ROM "Ausgabe 2/99" (I think that's the CD-ROM that came with the February 1999 issue of the German PC-WELT magazine), at the path "\sharewar\sw\intsich\nukefix.exe". Unfortunately I can't find an ISO of that specific CD-ROM anywhere online, but maybe someone out there has it.

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