Lazarus Archive · LZ-05109

Thunder Ascent

Shaw Interactive, 1983. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A platform game for the ZX Spectrum, released by Shaw Interactive in 1983 and never reissued.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All files were recovered; 31 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5c023932d682764ecff0a5e9ea098de0c76340b4e39d570fd43f73f394a1f323
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 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: Shaw Interactive, Thunder Ascent (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05109.

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