Lazarus Archive · LZ-41072

Arctic Comet

Tessel Computing, 1980. Game for the Apple II.

Description

A text adventure for the Apple II, published by Tessel Computing in 1980.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Craneby Bay and passed to Lazarus. Mould on one disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
294343e6dd4f1aada4f890b36cabe717569e1864f20a1fb7ee7094129b5262fa
Last verified
Sep 14, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.

Cite as: Tessel Computing, Arctic Comet (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41072.

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