Description
A text adventure for the Apple II, released by Tern Computing in 1977 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Port Larkstead and passed to Lazarus. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6c3f477ea57a2e5d2dda1cb4a336e2818724a578805befc8abdb704b542f57e5- Last verified
- Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.
Cite as: Tern Computing, Sunken Descent (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23481.