Description
A pinball simulation for MS-DOS that Vikram Takahashi wrote alone and released as shareware in 1981.
Provenance
Deposited by Eastworth Bay Demoscene Archive. Eight disks; two read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c4c0d58d6afbc0a5af47e709e6c5f29c2c5aee0c3b4a3175d4802d3354ed2591- Last verified
- Sep 25, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Vikram Takahashi, Crystal Expedition (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03735.