Lazarus Archive · LZ-25788

Distant Patrol

Vector Computing, 1983. Game for MSX computers.

Description

A role-playing game for MSX computers, released by Vector Computing in 1983 and never reissued.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2019. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c82283ebcbf41789cdb4473e93d9fe98045b2c2a052c3e020896ffd176f8c6e5
Last verified
Oct 11, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MSX-4 · lz-z80 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.

Cite as: Vector Computing, Distant Patrol (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25788.

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