Description
A homemade shoot-’em-up for Windows 3.x, written by Rhiannon Varga in 1990.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2019. Mould on three disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ea47e9e7b785056ed16f02dd5706b89573e60d29a0095d4ea6af4652347e8c5f- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WIN3-6 · 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.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.
Cite as: Rhiannon Varga, The Distant Pursuit (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30746.