Description
A racing game for the BBC Micro, released by Ferro Computing in 1982 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in East Whiteport and passed to Lazarus. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f0801740c3d1daebc22d66631dfd0a662f175306c82ba7c3e573cd02dfd3e5e2- Last verified
- Oct 2, 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. The license does not permit copies to 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: Ferro Computing, Run of the Old Kings (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01584.