Lazarus Archive · LZ-00216

Garden of the Glass Desert

Uma Petrov, 1987. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A sports game for the ZX Spectrum that Uma Petrov wrote alone and released as shareware in 1987.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. About 85 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
144cffd470100018d6e7cf85a3e46e9efa5bcb3801871eadc9bc620141ad85a2
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ZXS-6 · lz-z80 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.

Cite as: Uma Petrov, Garden of the Glass Desert (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00216.

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