Description
A shoot-’em-up for the Amstrad CPC that Jamal Rostami wrote alone and released as shareware in 1984.
Provenance
Deposited by Port Saltwater Library and Archives, which had held it unread for years. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All files were recovered; 58 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b910adaa0b5475eac29c9a2b56426ad23db6a1c70a133032bb5eb4218bd29c00- Last verified
- Oct 17, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-CPC-5 · 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.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.
Cite as: Jamal Rostami, The Electric Engine (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15959.