Description
An arcade maze game by Nettlesoft, 2000, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All files were recovered; 13 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
748b76b1b4c65dd50bc852ac5a65be9034f63239be83660cc4a8f3cee66129a2- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Nettlesoft, The Distant Comet (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16345.