Lazarus Archive · LZ-40981

Cosmic Gauntlet

Orchid Software, 1993. Game for the BBC Micro.

Description

A graphic adventure for the BBC Micro, published by Orchid Software in 1993.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. 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)
35af3ae953d10c5289ead4797f2ee03d896fba02694e4dffbe6da339ea0be685
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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Orchid Software, Cosmic Gauntlet (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40981.

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