Description
A text adventure for the BBC Micro, released by Karst Games in 1987 and never reissued.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b363ecca87d0c406950d8a7d404d1fc444ec7d7f59b12ecfb4fda984cbd8af72- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Karst Games, Kingdom of the North (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18485.