Description
A space trading game for MSX computers, released by Fathom Software in 1987 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Lowland Software Preservation Group. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d3dcd594ccf42defb7f7107ed07c594c7b9a7b758efb7958c72d9c90f21bec9a- Last verified
- Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-MSX-4 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.
Cite as: Fathom Software, Frontier of Kestrel Island (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11449.