Description
A management simulation for the BBC Micro, released by Gannet Software in 1990 and never reissued.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
baa4063baac7de9646ae05618d5e6d5dbcf94292515862492907da646d5a265c- Last verified
- Oct 15, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Gannet Software, Frontier of the Iron Coast (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14667.