Lazarus Archive · LZ-05043

Cosmic Oracle

Emeka Takahashi, 1987. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A strategy game for the ZX Spectrum, written by Emeka Takahashi and sold by mail order.

Provenance

Donated with the machine it was used on. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
26f9c9065648ab33f8aec7d0569e68be7b736cd63aa0a7d603c46dfd55755717
Last verified
Oct 17, 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: Emeka Takahashi, Cosmic Oracle (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05043.

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