Description
A golf game for the ZX Spectrum that Nikhil O’Neill wrote alone and released as shareware in 1985.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Port Dunbury and passed to Lazarus. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1d4334e6f86c14cdbed64315afbb73d8d6176c8bed3d97bf2d8a50902ca96ee8- Last verified
- Oct 26, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Nikhil O’Neill, Golden Ascent (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02514.