Description
A puzzle game for the Commodore 64, released by Pebble Software in 1988 and never reissued.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2015. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3ebe61d32cf1a4c9a98cc2b62c602f170ef9e223efc5908c7b73c39ed99eff74- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Pebble Software, Gambit of the Old Kings (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23868.