Description
A text adventure for the BBC Micro, released by Kowalski & Virtanen in 1981 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Ferncombe Falls Computer Heritage Centre in 2020. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 36 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cb4a514d8206b46adc844bdb4b32329d5c18d8eacd18eeed5ca9dc31640030b9- Last verified
- Sep 13, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBC-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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.
Cite as: Kowalski & Virtanen, Quiet Express (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28533.