Lazarus Archive · LZ-37981

Crimson Frontier

Kowalski & Costa, 1984. Game for bulletin boards.

Description

A platform game for bulletin boards, released by Kowalski & Costa in 1984 and never reissued.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2024. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
cc668ca21f26e3775e4e1410ecd5ce845585f5cf67a4c49a2416ec47f4b22920
Last verified
Oct 14, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBS-4 · lz-x86 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-BBS-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on bulletin boards.

Cite as: Kowalski & Costa, Crimson Frontier (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37981.

Nearby in Bulletin Boards and Early Networks

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