Description
An arcade space trading game by Sara Girard, 1981, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
af389a59e4d4ba58e46d67db3eb06f97161fa197031d2bf71cfe06dfa6d0e084- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade 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-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.
Cite as: Sara Girard, The Silent Comet (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27248.