Lazarus Archive · LZ-24772

Emerald Express

Northwindsoft, 1991. Game for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A wargame for the Amstrad CPC, published by Northwindsoft in 1991.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Port Amberstead. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9c85f28ec9134310afc034b601af6bacea1239c2a99e528deb4535ed8b59970b
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPC-5 · lz-z80 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-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.

Cite as: Northwindsoft, Emerald Express (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24772.

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