Description
A puzzle game for Atari 8-bit computers that Petra O’Neill wrote alone and released as shareware in 1985.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2019. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7f986010993376623215aa8c2611fb1c4c1cb6a10ced2774cc0b8c7fb1894e33- Last verified
- Oct 14, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Petra O’Neill, The Clockwork Quest (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25752.