Description
A shoot-’em-up for MS-DOS, released by Ortega & Lund in 1999 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. All files were recovered; 49 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
60bfdca291c15079d098cd1ff8af258bfe51fd86739a052b7b6111a8dfe68716- Last verified
- Oct 21, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away.
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: Ortega & Lund, Lagoon of the Glass Desert (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13249.