Lazarus Archive · LZ-17940

Distant Caverns Deluxe

Cobaltsoft, 1986. Game for Atari 8-bit computers.

Description

A space trading game for Atari 8-bit computers, published by Cobaltsoft in 1986.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5fb9cb56f0a96700991fbb5d5deb508318680200870c010b6d9128aa432ac56b
Last verified
Sep 3, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ATARI8-5 · lz-6502 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.

Cite as: Cobaltsoft, Distant Caverns Deluxe (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17940.

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