Description
A space trading game for the Apple II, released by Ardent Games in 1980 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Riverstead Games Museum, which had held it unread for years. 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)
b62797b8c2bcb76d41a6ce0d4549ea90708d785b7ec293bee26b2cdf1ee32888- Last verified
- Oct 12, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.
Cite as: Ardent Games, Copper Run (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04336.