Description
A space trading game for MS-DOS, written by Marta Costa and sold by mail order.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 55 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5268f2a856d4c5039c0fabc1a63086d2ce44b09d7dd43b86cf68769579e1161f- Last verified
- Oct 4, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Marta Costa, Pursuit of the Iron Coast (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29138.