Description
A space trading game for the Apple II, released by Atlas Software in 1985 and never reissued.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Rebuilt from 2 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2b93b7f2a29b8f7dee127177f69d0c890a3ab8e9fec06c1af9d2e7fee1702593- Last verified
- Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.
Cite as: Atlas Software, Desert Engine II (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12659.