Lazarus Archive · LZ-13232

Frozen Descent

Beacon Computing, 2002. Game for Flash.

Description

A space trading game for Flash, released by Beacon Computing in 2002 and never reissued.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f96969f13c842d9d404040fe47170f1ebe62c3928087b93f70bd3a95e609a787
Last verified
Sep 18, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-FLASH-5 · lz-swf core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

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-FLASH-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Flash.

Cite as: Beacon Computing, Frozen Descent (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13232.

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