# Credits and original software

Scorched Earth 1.5 (1995), copyright 1991–1995 Wendell Hicken.

This independent browser presentation runs the original, unmodified DOS shareware executable. The complete original archive, including its manual, registration form and terrain files, is preserved at [assets/scorch15.zip](assets/scorch15.zip).

The browser loads [assets/scorch-browser.zip](assets/scorch-browser.zip), repacked with modern ZIP compression because js-dos cannot extract the original archive's compression method. All 20 extracted files are byte-for-byte unchanged. Reproduce with `python3 scripts/package-scorch.py` from the collection repository root; file hashes are recorded in `docs/scorch-file-hashes.json`.

Downloaded from the [creator's official website](https://www.whicken.com/scorch/) on 2026-10-18: https://www.whicken.com/scorch/scorch15.zip. The registered edition is not included. Visit the creator's site to support the original game. A free download is not treated here as a blanket grant of redistribution rights; public hosting rights have not been independently cleared.

The emulation runtime is js-dos 6.22 / DOSBox, copied unchanged from the sibling Digger project. [Bundled GPL license](vendor/js-dos/LICENSE). Upstream source: https://github.com/caiiiycuk/js-dos and https://github.com/caiiiycuk/dosbox.

The workstation photograph is newly generated artwork, separate from all original game graphics. Generated with the built-in image tool on 2026-10-16 and recovered for this implementation on 2026-10-18. See docs/ROOM-ART.md in the source project for its prompt and placement.