Lazarus Archive · LZ-00268

Distant Descent

Chidi Lowe, 1993. Game for MSX computers.

Description

A homemade sports game for MSX computers, written by Chidi Lowe in 1993.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 1993. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3f69b3dd4e89825c60c96e0c5f59afbbd292e9a4b4768d2d58c77452c91c81f6
Last verified
Oct 7, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MSX-4 · lz-z80 core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.

Cite as: Chidi Lowe, Distant Descent (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00268.

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