Lazarus Archive · LZ-22558

The Arctic Derby

Ardent Games, 1979. Game for the TRS-80.

Description

A racing game for the TRS-80, published by Ardent Games in 1979.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Aldermont Harbour and passed to Lazarus. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c2a45bf9a0e46f69c5f52026e948648abe81294203fbc1a3179043c95a7edbd5
Last verified
Oct 4, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-TRS80-3 · 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-TRS80-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the TRS-80.

Cite as: Ardent Games, The Arctic Derby (1979). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22558.

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