4. DOWNLOAD ENIGMA SIMULATOR

(Advice: Unless you have some computer skills, this step can be very difficult. If you are like me and don't have good computer skills, find someone who does, and have them help you with this simulator download. You only have to download and save the simulator once. After that all you have to do is click on the simulator icon in the Programs menu.)

Click here to download these instructions.

Click on this link to download the freeware Award-Winning EnigmaSim program.

This program downloads in a zip format file. Save this file to a location on your computer that you can easily find. (You may need to download and install Winzip or a similar program to extract these files.) For specific installation instructions, open the EnigmaSim zip folder that you downloaded and find and read the "Readme" file.

To install the program, always uninstall any previous version before installing a new one!

Method 1: Open the EnigmaSim zip folder and extract all files into a folder and use the "SETUP" application.

Method 2: Open the EnigmaSim zip folder and use the Install button.

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Miscellaneous Enigma Simulator Information

This software is an exact simulation of the 3-rotor Wehrmacht (Army and Air Force) Enigma, the 3-rotor Kriegsmarine (Navy) M3, also called Funkschlussel M, and the famous 4-rotor Kriegmarine M4 Enigma cipher machine, used during World War II from 1939 until 1945. The sim has a very authentic feeling with its hands-on approach: you can select between the three models, actually lift out and insert different rotors, adjust their ring setting and set up the plugboard. The internal wiring of all rotors is identical to those that were used by the Wehrmacht and Kriegsmarine. This simulator is therefore fully compatible with the various real Enigma models and you can decrypt authentic wartime messages or encrypt and decrypt your own messages.

The program comes with a very complete 22 page helpfile, containing the manual, some original messages, the history of Enigma and all technical details of the machine.

Runs on Windows™ 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 and on MAC and Linux with Parallels Desktop or WINE (open source).

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