Description
A graphic adventure for Atari 8-bit computers, written by Isaac Hayes and sold by mail order.
Provenance
Deposited by Port Larkstead Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. About 89 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
dfa839d5b1a7da852e7dc44e499816a0914a37020ea62a26f5a4fc9960bef8e6- Last verified
- Oct 9, 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 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Isaac Hayes, Broken Monolith (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19001.