Description
A racing game for the BBC Micro, released by Helix Software in 1985 and never reissued.
Provenance
Deposited by North Southville Science Museum, from its own collections. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 18 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d738767dd47629cec2afa0846879b3d56561f4cf0f5a2f5ad8852a468caa0dc0- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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.
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: Helix Software, Crystal Siege II (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34568.