Description
A homemade space trading game for Windows, written by Simone Costa in 1995.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
791bececaee09620ddff78a05a568b1afc6b2ae19629049551cec54dc4f41585- Last verified
- Oct 12, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WINNT-7 · 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 under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WINNT-7, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows.
Cite as: Simone Costa, Oracle of the Old Kings (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37824.