Lazarus Archive · LZ-37116

The Rusty Comet

Kestrel Computing, 1988. Game for MS-DOS.

Description

A racing game for MS-DOS, published by Kestrel Computing in 1988.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The label reads ‘Old stuff’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d7d702963499ceec526e74b02c09cd2a93d31ef366e6d3a98c48198df8f2fa1b
Last verified
Oct 10, 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.

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: Kestrel Computing, The Rusty Comet (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37116.

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