Description
An arcade graphic adventure by Isaac Reid, 1986, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e76773e6fcbe97482bc80c8d5449d7a8a74e1e051b7a750cd90d8373e165b5d6- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade 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-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.
Cite as: Isaac Reid, Crystal Monolith (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13348.