Description
A text adventure for the Macintosh that Anders Girard wrote alone and released as shareware in 1985.
Provenance
Deposited by Ironhurst Falls Computer Heritage Centre, from its own collections. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 17 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6933f020ad579e4d98fee8ba660efba777b4521b2cf5464d9b6e7be2d4ca2e49- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.
Cite as: Anders Girard, Desert Archipelago (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00177.