Lazarus Archive · LZ-08704

Crimson Galleon

Whimbrel Software, 1989. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A flight simulator for the ZX Spectrum, released by Whimbrel Software in 1989 and never reissued.

Provenance

Deposited by Southern Coast Retro Computing Society, from its own collections. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 47 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f57054d7fc1adc2cff1480e504bd29de571ec74be21f7c2c7ad1a2a2db141ab1
Last verified
Oct 30, 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: Whimbrel Software, Crimson Galleon (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08704.

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