Lazarus Archive · LZ-29682

Desert Engine

Jana Nakamura, 1996. Game for a disc-based console.

Description

A platform game for a disc-based console, published by Jana Nakamura in 1996.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2019. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0c63f31a2d29ba37e869d297ebdc7bceb84eac6e8f7a02b5dfd2d7e2926aa4f1
Last verified
Sep 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DISC-4 · 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-DISC-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on a disc-based console.

Cite as: Jana Nakamura, Desert Engine (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29682.

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