Description
A space trading game for MS-DOS, released by Willowcombe Springs Software in 1990 and never reissued.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘Disk 1 of 2’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
07d1aabab5cf36df785985c703a8ed42c32ca3e5aa59143ec441e2d237db29d8- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Willowcombe Springs Software, The Sunken Comet (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34501.