Description
A text adventure for MS-DOS, written by Liam Khoury and sold by mail order.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The label reads ‘Version that works’. Only fragments could be read. They are kept because nothing else of the work survives.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f58682b14a1d8067a2a9c1095750d21fbf5578a309f65c0cec7c1e368f6011b1- Last verified
- Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.
Cite as: Liam Khoury, Burning Gambit (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18631.