Description
A text adventure for the ZX Spectrum, published by Plover Games in 1984.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Stonemore Springs and passed to Lazarus. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8dd7768e1db2ed916683a1834b9611a412df2d1964b965a4d34291342f6d2808- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Plover Games, Clockwork Comet (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08456.