Description
A graphic adventure for the BBC Micro, released by Helixsoft in 1986 and never reissued.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
17e1969cf55200ce63f6359e7782c740cb7b4a190bc202cff13c9ac05f79bba9- Last verified
- Oct 26, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Helixsoft, Emerald Odyssey (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14880.