Description
An arcade conversion for the ZX Spectrum, released by De Vries & Mehta in 1985 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by Lakeshore Libraries, which had held it unread for years. 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)
297fc92590252464f5253b1106cbc8405bbf2eb702df21c8aa952b26d576acf5- 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: De Vries & Mehta, Comet of the Frozen Star (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32251.