Description
A pinball simulation for MSX computers, released by Vectorsoft in 1988 and never reissued.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 47 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d95d6e67a9465211a4369fcfa054af18c0233f453301594c5654ef8833ebe6c8- Last verified
- Oct 8, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-MSX-4 · lz-z80 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-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.
Cite as: Vectorsoft, The Endless Archipelago (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14307.