Description
A maze game for MSX computers, published by Cinder Games in 1987.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
73f8ff13eb6b847fc056c5f750b7e7282594d080654af1c7a4cd0409cff1cd79- Last verified
- Oct 12, 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 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-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.
Cite as: Cinder Games, The Desert Engine (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02083.