Lazarus Archive · LZ-08735

The Lunar Citadels

Castellanos & Lim, 1981. Game for MS-DOS.

Description

A text adventure for MS-DOS, released by Castellanos & Lim in 1981 and never reissued.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2006. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All files were recovered; 6 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0bbb6bdce6b357c4afe37e7838ad438a5f41a2d44e6e9cb8665ed131e974a837
Last verified
Oct 12, 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.

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: Castellanos & Lim, The Lunar Citadels (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08735.

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