Lazarus Archive · LZ-40758

Ascent of the Frozen Star

Gannet Software, 1984. Game for the BBC Micro.

Description

A wargame for the BBC Micro, released by Gannet Software in 1984 and never reissued.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Redport Falls and passed to Lazarus. The label reads ‘Master’. About 73 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
54aa41427929f4d1bce063f6c216214b7fd7a629a4139d528b088e7afd2ec7c6
Last verified
Oct 19, 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: Gannet Software, Ascent of the Frozen Star (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40758.

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