Lazarus Archive · LZ-01417

The Desert Monolith

Keller Interactive, 1983. Game for CP/M.

Description

A space trading game for CP/M, released by Keller Interactive in 1983 and never reissued.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e27f30752c99b8c5909245fee12d36ead3cbc7a51690e49335fe04f5878c12d2
Last verified
Oct 4, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPM-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 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-CPM-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on CP/M.

Cite as: Keller Interactive, The Desert Monolith (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01417.

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