Lazarus Archive · LZ-22553

Wild Descent

Astrid Bakker, 1992. Game for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A flight simulator for the Amstrad CPC that Astrid Bakker wrote alone and released as shareware in 1992.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. All files were recovered; 46 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5d314d19464f1435c5c2011baa75bbf3fcd782d1ca95494637ce1ddacab6007c
Last verified
Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPC-5 · lz-z80 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-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.

Cite as: Astrid Bakker, Wild Descent (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22553.

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