Description
A flight simulator for Windows 95 and 98, released by Hartbury Software in 1999 and never reissued.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Ironfield. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. All files were recovered; 12 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
edccdecfdc5fc3f7dfd10949124fe23f9feee557eb418ba06dd0819d98a94b90- Last verified
- Sep 22, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WIN9X-9 · 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.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WIN9X-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 95 and 98.
Cite as: Hartbury Software, The Quiet Comet (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40259.