Description
A maze game for the PDP-11, published by Gyre Software in 1980.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Harthaven and passed to Lazarus. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
92d29a90be94656b019cc135bf37bd919d61221ba14d319e35775cb57ceb1ef6- Last verified
- Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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 under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.
Cite as: Gyre Software, Descent of the Deep (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18503.