Description
A graphic adventure for the BBC Micro, released by Fathomsoft in 1994 and never reissued.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
10ad01d4af07dce8820ff7d84e01ba4e4187b8b1e7cc2ab5a24b25b53650c857- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Fathomsoft, Iron Comet (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27480.