Description
A strategy game for MS-DOS, released by Gyre Software in 1998 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Museum of Riverlands Industry, which had held it unread for years. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8538ee83c38c9a4f55ce767a39a1468a9199e74cd0ad9f75db688b97fdeca707- Last verified
- Sep 28, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Gyre Software, Archipelago of Mars (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11347.