Description
A platform game for MS-DOS, published by Hosseini Interactive in 1984.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a5b455f785feb593bc78f918c6e49dd3ac500992f8fa216684886971479c153d- Last verified
- Oct 7, 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: Hosseini Interactive, The Distant Express (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31052.