Description
An arcade conversion for the Amstrad CPC, released by Whimbrel Software in 1987 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Friends of Southstead History, which had held it unread for years. The label reads ‘Version that works’. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1f0060bd16cd7825c79d52b783f4d18a0b312363d4763ba590400682f667b601- Last verified
- Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-CPC-5 · 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.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.
Cite as: Whimbrel Software, Super Ascent (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11985.