Lazarus Archive · LZ-28472

The Starlit Gambit

Lumen Games, 1989. Game for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A text adventure for the Amstrad CPC, published by Lumen Games in 1989.

Provenance

Deposited by Greenbelt Retro Computing Society, from its own collections. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 70 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
592da506c7de1592e2859cf49929bd4ab2a2c036cc3af0bb064bc6751ba2a052
Last verified
Oct 24, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Lumen Games, The Starlit Gambit (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28472.

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