Description
A pinball simulation for the Apple II, released by Ardentsoft in 1977 and never reissued.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Alderhurst. The label reads ‘Taxes’. Only fragments could be read. They are kept because nothing else of the work survives.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9b612e29c93ae6c032ca23359b726b75020395d27735c4422436863abe8439e5- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Ardentsoft, Thunder Patrol (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41197.