Lazarus Archive · LZ-02819

Helix Shell

Aldermore Falls Software, 1987. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A file manager for MS-DOS, published by Aldermore Falls Software in 1987.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Goldwater Falls and passed to Lazarus. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b822331cdd672d02e651569805b1490927749eb78cfd5014439cd3ff627ffdae
Last verified
Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Aldermore Falls Software, Helix Shell (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02819.

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