Description
A homemade wargame for Atari 8-bit computers, written by Lucia Park in 1989.
Provenance
Deposited by North Brookcombe Design Museum, which had held it unread for years. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d9ca5fd1cb0a18f4d3d2a2f570ae22e8879d6e691ca386244d783f0bc1595165- Last verified
- Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · lz-6502 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Lucia Park, Desert Pursuit (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09713.