Description
A role-playing game for Atari 8-bit computers, released by Helix Games in 1990 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Silverholt and passed to Lazarus. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c07939a70640ff5ccb22d899da0e2979c6ad17b307bb8893dfee564a2ed28a33- Last verified
- Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · 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. Copies may be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Helix Games, Broken Patrol Deluxe (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41168.