Description
A space trading game for the BBC Micro, written by Vikram Kaplan and sold by mail order.
Provenance
Deposited by Lowland Software Preservation Group, from its own collections. The label reads ‘For the archive’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4266508f62083778018129b4b53cb4b95d460d44bf3e72e182d63a4585c41f2a- Last verified
- Sep 28, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Vikram Kaplan, Crystal Siege (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21218.