Lazarus Archive · LZ-11865

The Crimson Labyrinth

Maeve Choi, 1985. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A homemade space trading game for the ZX Spectrum, written by Maeve Choi in 1985.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fa0f3e61fd4d06f432397002664af6250f14d5f0ad953d28f17f3086d0a7c95f
Last verified
Sep 13, 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: Maeve Choi, The Crimson Labyrinth (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11865.

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