Description
An arcade graphic adventure by Aster Software, 1981, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Hazelbridge Falls and passed to Lazarus. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5ec63a162734bc2f8ce8266f3f267979aec421eca7199d1eb298c66c052ffce0- Last verified
- Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade 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-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.
Cite as: Aster Software, Desert Reactor (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29713.