Lazarus Archive · LZ-31119

Mines of the Glass Desert

Tobias Osei, 1990. Game for MSX computers.

Description

A pinball simulation for MSX computers that Tobias Osei wrote alone and released as shareware in 1990.

Provenance

Deposited by Granite Coast Arcade Preservation Society in 2021. Eight disks; seven read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
30ceec0df30e5912c3f2de83c572d5bc2aaeb82dbfaf7c9da74502110944270d
Last verified
Sep 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MSX-4 · lz-z80 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-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.

Cite as: Tobias Osei, Mines of the Glass Desert (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31119.

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