Lazarus Archive · LZ-39411

The Iron Orbit

Quarry Computing, 2000. Game for bulletin boards.

Description

A sports game for bulletin boards, released by Quarry Computing in 2000 and never reissued.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
58886174b5a34d88f5855776b3c3505c34953bcc41375d0a5769ea4281e7b3e2
Last verified
Oct 6, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBS-4 · lz-x86 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-BBS-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on bulletin boards.

Cite as: Quarry Computing, The Iron Orbit (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39411.

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