Description
A text adventure for MS-DOS, released by Abernathy Interactive in 1994 and never reissued.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4fe43586b7712819aafafdf1e011ff29341f65af7d8f8df44b7a50568c33c40d- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Abernathy Interactive, Desert Quest (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08132.