Lazarus Archive · LZ-02119

Pursuit of the Old Kings

Aster Software, 1991. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A space trading game for the ZX Spectrum, released by Aster Software in 1991 and never reissued.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 1999. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c1dbb5f8850bda350bf68cdee621bd8dc502b3e01e27b45811d88af297954656
Last verified
Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ZXS-6 · lz-z80 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-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.

Cite as: Aster Software, Pursuit of the Old Kings (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02119.

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