Lazarus Archive · LZ-14353

Arctic Gauntlet

Karst Computing, 1990. Game for the BBC Micro.

Description

A sports game for the BBC Micro, released by Karst Computing in 1990 and never reissued.

Provenance

Deposited by Marcombe Computer Heritage Centre in 2011. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9d2eaef1d447a76d674ec1509a84436ed5d16f84b2a0224d6322aa0f83d13ed0
Last verified
Oct 4, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 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-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.

Cite as: Karst Computing, Arctic Gauntlet (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14353.

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