Description
An arcade racing game by Eklund & Herrera, 1989, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2016. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3df1087dca294b55924f6d0400928704d7fe95c4d5280e47cdfe822c1dbd3a6c- Last verified
- Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade 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.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.
Cite as: Eklund & Herrera, Distant Comet (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23830.