Lazarus Archive · LZ-11353

Monolith of the Glass Desert

Ivo Ndiaye, 1985. Game for MS-DOS.

Description

A homemade maze game for MS-DOS, written by Ivo Ndiaye in 1985.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Redhurst. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e049e6e3d5fc1be6134d5c7a2063b45d86516e24403f194c19c4d8cfd922b044
Last verified
Oct 24, 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: Ivo Ndiaye, Monolith of the Glass Desert (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11353.

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