Lazarus Archive · LZ-31622

The Distant Frontier

Mercier & Levi, 1988. Game for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum, released by Mercier & Levi in 1988 and never reissued.

Provenance

Deposited by Highfold Public Library. The label reads ‘Game saves’. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
cda5a5cd399590b0a83fd287413b75828292f5170b9f1da54ea71f8c22d01c89
Last verified
Oct 26, 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: Mercier & Levi, The Distant Frontier (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31622.

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