Lazarus Archive · LZ-12742

Run of the Frozen Star

Helixsoft, 1985. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A graphic adventure for the ZX Spectrum, published by Helixsoft in 1985.

Provenance

Deposited by Tri-County Libraries, which had held it unread for years. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1b58140c2c6fad8d34ad02bd6cd6631b97b90d253dca44b4b47e156fb21fcd64
Last verified
Sep 28, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Helixsoft, Run of the Frozen Star (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12742.

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