Lazarus Archive · LZ-12819

Clockwork Oracle

Alma Watanabe, 1990. Game for Windows 3.x.

Description

A homemade space trading game for Windows 3.x, written by Alma Watanabe in 1990.

Provenance

Deposited by Archive of Three Rivers Broadcasting, which had held it unread for years. The label, written in marker, reads ‘Game saves’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ce134196b2090da48f6eb785320f10cd27c89aaeb152e61f4bceb140829670c3
Last verified
Oct 14, 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.

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: Alma Watanabe, Clockwork Oracle (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12819.

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