Lazarus Archive · LZ-01109

Oracle of the Deep

Carmen Jung, 1982. Game for the BBC Micro.

Description

A homemade space trading game for the BBC Micro, written by Carmen Jung in 1982.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘Master’. Rebuilt from 2 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4ebb69a5498230e3021e5ef34365ba1364173ceae0c9e49263897ae65e25b3e0
Last verified
Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 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-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.

Cite as: Carmen Jung, Oracle of the Deep (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01109.

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