Description
An arcade conversion for Windows, released by North Sandmere Software in 2011 and never reissued.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. About 65 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9299bdb68f50affe2e8af4f856fcf662fb10b777b21f0c945668d7c9b1b2f4dc- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WINNT-7 · lz-x86 core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WINNT-7, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows.
Cite as: North Sandmere Software, The Distant Expedition (2011). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27389.