Lazarus Archive · LZ-18523

Distant Mines

Northwind Computing, 1985. Game for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A sports game for the Amstrad CPC, released by Northwind Computing in 1985 and never reissued.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
6146b03b433bdbddf507d6bfee6c6fb650c7ea031382a35c2a75939af14dff77
Last verified
Oct 10, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPC-5 · lz-z80 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-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.

Cite as: Northwind Computing, Distant Mines (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18523.

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