Description
A racing game for Windows 3.x, released by Kestrel Computing in 1995 and never reissued.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Millleigh Falls. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a7660010f8846b9f0fe5c7cf3d488fdefa69de41b2f86bd7dac02faf9858d2aa- Last verified
- Oct 18, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WIN3-6 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.
Cite as: Kestrel Computing, The Iron Comet (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12797.