Description
A platform game for Atari 8-bit computers, published by Beacon Games in 1981.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Greenport Bay. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
efee45da8c819698efa56c44f244dad6291ce6bee3b47733e9b566b0f09779b6- Last verified
- Oct 26, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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 Games, The Starlit Orbit (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22561.