Description
A pinball simulation for bulletin boards, released by Gannet Software in 1991 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8b409db1078d3b587aefaf67a4a555c8a9e376e22d4b46d52857f37bc820399f- Last verified
- Oct 2, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBS-4 · 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-BBS-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on bulletin boards.
Cite as: Gannet Software, Cosmic Lighthouse (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14845.