Description
A space trading game for the Atari ST, published by Northwind Software in 1988.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. Mould on two disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7beff6299e9c4719e4b27cdfae5b7a2d969c8efe354f292150050477991f1a10- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARIST-6 · lz-m68k 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARIST-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Atari ST.
Cite as: Northwind Software, Crimson Descent (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33193.