Description
A homemade maze game for the ZX Spectrum, written by Dalia Quist in 1983.
Provenance
Deposited by Eastworth Bay Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1ab13bf1f90148a3b34872710c07a771a7711dca0e3b19288491e3ccbf54914b- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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: Dalia Quist, Crimson Gambit (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04256.