Lazarus Archive · LZ-27957

The Crystal Odyssey

Abel Hughes, 1981. Game for the Apple II.

Description

A graphic adventure for the Apple II, written by Abel Hughes and sold by mail order.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
897ca8eff7092812652ef570ae179408d8da149b10bf20c10027d0dc2fb228bb
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.

Cite as: Abel Hughes, The Crystal Odyssey (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27957.

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