Description
A space trading game for the Commodore 64, released by Helix Computing in 1988 and never reissued.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2016. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. About 91 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4eb99ef68c3dfe5207640b5550e0ec1b8ffa931c8e384de46e073143fb0b6ba3- Last verified
- Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-C64-9 · lz-6510 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-C64-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Commodore 64.
Cite as: Helix Computing, Broken Frontier: Director’s Cut (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22726.