Description
A puzzle game for the BBC Micro, published by Port Kingsworth Software in 1987.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The label reads ‘For the archive’. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
89a79eaeaec9b78c0c4b1ba4a6275dad1a935a9ff2e141434cbafe481a27cf4c- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Port Kingsworth Software, Distant Run (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15889.