Description
A flight simulator for the ZX Spectrum, released by Quillsoft in 1984 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3422cc75c5df5518081f2846d4f9f0f9666dd4f32ffd6eab14655ff0c2228e8a- Last verified
- Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ZXS-6 · 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-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.
Cite as: Quillsoft, The Midnight Gambit (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28827.