Description
A space trading game for the Atari ST, released by Beacon Computing in 1988 and never reissued.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
eaae121e93f7afa2dbc84363ed1d5fdb9e0d2038e27c249960968ab66bdccee4- Last verified
- Sep 18, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARIST-6 · 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. Copies may be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARIST-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Atari ST.
Cite as: Beacon Computing, Desert Expedition (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02582.