Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Weststead by its sysop, Emeka Aziz, with message bases, a file library and 734 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Eastworth Bay Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. The label reads ‘Thesis data’. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b0edea7178e2f39ab7d39e03432495cb92da5bbe093f976efa377980ca8c0bee- Last verified
- Sep 7, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Emeka Aziz, The Crystal Arena BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40586.