Lazarus Archive · LZ-33867

Circuit of the Iron Coast

Mercier & Halloran, 1989. Game for the BBC Micro.

Description

A strategy game for the BBC Micro, released by Mercier & Halloran in 1989 and never reissued.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3157baa284cd42b5bc68c2e122431318b33a3013c5811c27299124d312ba3a5e
Last verified
Oct 9, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Mercier & Halloran, Circuit of the Iron Coast (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33867.

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