Lazarus Archive · LZ-18426

Monolith of the Old Kings

Marta Quist, 1985. Game for the BBC Micro.

Description

A graphic adventure for the BBC Micro that Marta Quist wrote alone and released as shareware in 1985.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The label reads ‘Version that works’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fb88cdd84a9a2f22f0f276f0e76b441aa231738bb813ebf910dbe159cc7c8f02
Last verified
Oct 6, 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: Marta Quist, Monolith of the Old Kings (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18426.

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