Description
A racing game for MS-DOS, released by Korhonen & Eklund in 1993 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Mould on one disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
652c22e95b9fb524fa593815cdb9f149f29b2fb582df01f96129a8ce916896a3- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Korhonen & Eklund, The Desert Patrol (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23011.