Enigma Simulator Update

Santa Claus has brought to you a new - major - update of my Enigma simulator. After some 300.000 downloads of the sim worldwide (who said history and maths are boring?), I decided to create a last major update with ideas that have floated around in my head in recent years.

Since the Mayas predicted the end of the world in 2012, I took the opportunity to put the new sim in Santa's sock so that you can enjoy the little gizmo before we all go with a big bang in the next year. And the best of all... is free!



Screenshots of the new Enigma simulator: Enigma I, M3 and M4

What's new in this version? There's a major graphical revision with a different front cover and internal view for each of the Enigma models (Heer and Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine M3 and M4). There are now two types of rotors (labelled with letters or numbers) and the plugboard is revised, with different layouts for the various models. The plugboard layout order is also changeable. The individual plugs are now visible on top view.

A new photo gallery is added, with new images that I shot from various Enigma machines. The new sound effects are recorded from a real enigma machine, there's a sound on/off option and the Auto Typing function is improved. Finally, the help file is re-written and expanded. I hope these are enough reasons to go see what Santa brought to you!

You can download the Enigma simulator 7.0 from my website. Any comments on the new version are most welcome through my website. Have fun!

M. Hamacher created a nice video showing the nuts and bolts of my Enigma simulator and explains the wartime procedure to encrypt messages.

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