Lazarus Archive · LZ-28099

Desert Rally

Darius Novak, 1980. Game for a cartridge console.

Description

A shoot-’em-up for a cartridge console, published by Darius Novak in 1980.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
60f86d9dd5a576aff8348fa956222b05190c424e06378e60f7ac104f60e42f74
Last verified
Sep 26, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CART-7 · lz-console 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-CART-7, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on a cartridge console.

Cite as: Darius Novak, Desert Rally (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28099.

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