Description
A space trading game for the Amiga, released by Ellis & Ionescu in 1986 and never reissued.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Five disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All files were recovered; 3 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a97b2a85afaaa4e8b11563ed2f5a940d3b17f6958c0508dad9e77b625f18586c- Last verified
- Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-AMIGA-7 · lz-m68k 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-AMIGA-7, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amiga.
Cite as: Ellis & Ionescu, The Iron Engine (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01903.