Description
A pinball simulation for Atari 8-bit computers, released by Beacon Computing in 1981 and never reissued.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2016. The label reads ‘Master’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0aec40f45caba73036df7d03ed494c7f324ef4f3d508fe0ae2495e8289c3eeaa- Last verified
- Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Beacon Computing, Wild Comet Gold (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21166.