Description
A homemade space trading game for the BBC Micro, written by Luis Takahashi in 1986.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Mould on three disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c468a84597cd2d0469f7a878d64b1ceb4428373fb7fae99cb443b4f74917d630- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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.
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: Luis Takahashi, Quest of the Iron Coast (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28992.