Description
A puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum, published by Whimbrelsoft in 1987.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The label reads ‘Taxes’. All files were recovered; 16 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
34c61665c7af1347e3a3e8cfb580bfb95a5f9f5e5dbd7c2b8173b0226ee11fc7- 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 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-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.
Cite as: Whimbrelsoft, Hollow Comet (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11600.