Description
A maze game for Flash that Amara Gupta wrote alone and released as shareware in 1997.
Provenance
Deposited by Marcombe Computer Heritage Centre. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c8a336f700b477bd1cd7b2353f7fd8020913524470a7c1396c2285ab7ac74c7c- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-FLASH-5 · lz-swf core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
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-FLASH-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Flash.
Cite as: Amara Gupta, Cosmic Engine: The Return (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05193.