Lazarus Archive · LZ-02430

Thunder Frontier

Quill Computing, 1986. Game for Atari 8-bit computers.

Description

A platform game for Atari 8-bit computers, released by Quill Computing in 1986 and never reissued.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8eeb4b32e05e11347143ea92ec5c202ce523dadad8b6fc4c4e8f0d9d59bff416
Last verified
Oct 20, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ATARI8-5 · 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.

Cite as: Quill Computing, Thunder Frontier (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02430.

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