Lazarus Archive · LZ-08153

Crystal Archipelago

Summit Computing, 1982. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A sports game for the ZX Spectrum, released by Summit Computing in 1982 and never reissued.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 51 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
eb8b9717c398cd9eeeb7f2c8d13c8ebb79451f6f9e25cbb0604bf9d304de85ce
Last verified
Sep 12, 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: Summit Computing, Crystal Archipelago (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08153.

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