Description
A platform game for the ZX Spectrum, released by Fischer & Mercier in 1983 and never reissued.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
28625596b0f6b0b0ab9c0da465e8eb3a24fe5e60d630f12a968042e1cf178cab- Last verified
- Oct 8, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ZXS-6 · lz-z80 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-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.
Cite as: Fischer & Mercier, Iron Engine (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41148.