Description
A card game for the BBC Micro, released by Gannet Games in 1981 and never reissued.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘Copy 2’. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3a6360d4058306b8649689f5523a6ac20f4bf7bcb4bf909b030f647affae41aa- Last verified
- Oct 15, 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.
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: Gannet Games, The Crystal Orbit (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23942.