Lazarus Archive · LZ-07697

Secret Mines

Amara Karimi, 1997. Game for MS-DOS.

Description

A management simulation for MS-DOS that Amara Karimi wrote alone and released as shareware in 1997.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. All files were recovered; 21 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
20ac53ab85de76dbbd8fb57877dd4fa9e4bd6ed02fd5ae0646a064c695d58561
Last verified
Oct 20, 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: Amara Karimi, Secret Mines (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07697.

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