Description
A demo for Atari 8-bit computers by Spectral Systems, first shown at the Fairgate Gathering in 1983.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b23669f026ea0cc7bbb16d20be079e6191302d8f50533c8ae1fb6fa40340bf2f- Last verified
- Oct 26, 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 under the work’s license.
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: Spectral Systems, Dither Requiem (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02787.