Lazarus Archive · LZ-25538

Archipelago of the North

Nimbus Computing, 1985. Game for the Macintosh.

Description

A racing game for the Macintosh, released by Nimbus Computing in 1985 and never reissued.

Provenance

Deposited by Riverstead Games Museum, from its own collections. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 76 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fc1105522d91a4388eabcd5cc546ca73a30f06415e6b1ee22954eeb914c76191
Last verified
Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k 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-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.

Cite as: Nimbus Computing, Archipelago of the North (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25538.

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