Description
A card game for the BBC Micro, released by Fathom Games in 1993 and never reissued.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2007. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5bc04e801336c5fb94d1858b377d450add41d7ae8ce99e59db376fb3a51d8474- Last verified
- Oct 9, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.
Cite as: Fathom Games, Gambit of the Frozen Star (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09441.