Description
A puzzle game for the BBC Micro, written by Abel MacLeod and sold by mail order.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Ashmont Springs. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a33184fa19d1e93d1b13eb95aad502c68f3c909fc1f9e127d3eccc0eaf94a9d4- Last verified
- Sep 2, 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: Abel MacLeod, Distant Pursuit (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32203.