Description
An arcade shoot-’em-up by Virtanen & Kato, 1994, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c52192d3d7fe086b1aca752b239f6973a16859b6dab3c1b97f2bbd7c4e395fba- Last verified
- Oct 10, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade 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-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.
Cite as: Virtanen & Kato, Wild Ascent (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07104.