Description
A homemade flight simulator for the ZX Spectrum, written by Kaito Becker in 1984.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 4 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ac34d37a98ca8795a35272a01c31ca41d2316969cccbb046be522970d9754ffb- Last verified
- Oct 3, 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: Kaito Becker, Velvet Lighthouse (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04903.