Lazarus Archive · LZ-06650

Signal of Kestrel Island

Elmby Harbour Software, 1987. Game for bulletin boards.

Description

A wargame for bulletin boards, published by Elmby Harbour Software in 1987.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
75a64e476fbcd05ae1f16d62bf6791a877bddc28201a96892451554eb3142bc2
Last verified
Sep 29, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBS-4 · lz-x86 core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-BBS-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on bulletin boards.

Cite as: Elmby Harbour Software, Signal of Kestrel Island (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06650.

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