Lazarus Archive · LZ-28860

Planet Detective 4

Gyre Learning, 1997. Educational software for MS-DOS.

Description

Classroom software for MS-DOS, written by Gyre Learning for ages 6 to 9.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a97d3e4d4c97a4d9dfbb04d65e273afdd976b85a2ccccebb8a97fd0bebd61cee
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Gyre Learning, Planet Detective 4 (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28860.

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