Description
A racing game for the ZX Spectrum, released by North Barholm Software in 1990 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Southern Coast Retro Computing Society, from its own collections. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
499709cead99b5066b65f952abd2ed339dfc9122ad9808663e54afcda0d6f090- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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. Copies may 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: North Barholm Software, Velvet Ascent (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14731.