DOSDOS · 1990 · geopolitical strategy
Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter
Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter (DOS, 1990) has an open-source reimplementation, damdavid/guns-or-butter.
Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry
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Projects
guns-or-butternew, unvetted
Reimplementationreimplementation from manual/behaviour0 starspushed 2026-09-26MIT license
Reimplementation of Chris Crawford's The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter (1990). No source survives, so the design is reconstructed from the manual, his own retrospective, and measurements taken from…
No source survives; design reconstructed.
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