Lazarus Archive · LZ-17736

Distant Oracle

Osprey Computing, 2000. Game for a handheld console.

Description

A space trading game for a handheld console, published by Osprey Computing in 2000.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a1306da4daa6a5a23406d7e85fcbead2364e0669923bb680d5dc4478e1d44542
Last verified
Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-HAND-5 · lz-console 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-HAND-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on a handheld console.

Cite as: Osprey Computing, Distant Oracle (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17736.

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