Lazarus Archive · LZ-30013

Cinder Fix 5.2

Quarrysoft, 1989. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A disk utility for MS-DOS, written by Quarrysoft for repair shops.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Whitehurst Bay. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
eaef44441de56e4fb22d0eded51cea82506be78e5c42895ebe9ad502895799d3
Last verified
Oct 13, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Quarrysoft, Cinder Fix 5.2 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30013.

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