Description
A subscription online service with 40 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 1999 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Deposited by Fernport Springs Demoscene Archive, from its own collections. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. All files were recovered; 10 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fa8ce1db5499966ca5468de2f96a69d7438710f286fb4b93c06e3226d7094246- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-FLASH-5 · lz-swf core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-FLASH-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Flash.
Cite as: Helix Online Services, HelixNet (1997–1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01792.