Lazarus Archive · LZ-17833

Desert Tower

Northwind Games, 1990. Game for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A strategy game for the Amstrad CPC, published by Northwind Games in 1990.

Provenance

Deposited by Three Rivers Retro Computing Society, which had held it unread for years. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
89582ced783125f922951424766399d7d0dbac3e0ce515e758479f3081c0215e
Last verified
Oct 3, 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. The license does not permit copies to 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: Northwind Games, Desert Tower (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17833.

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