Lazarus Archive · LZ-21004

AlcoveShell

Yara Haque, 1987. Application software for CP/M.

Description

A file manager for CP/M, sold to home users by Yara Haque.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e0c3d34bfbeb823be8a83670c1a631aa4cfee664cdc101ea9fdb700d8bb20e98
Last verified
Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPM-4 · 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-CPM-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on CP/M.

Cite as: Yara Haque, AlcoveShell (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21004.

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