Lazarus Archive · LZ-03032

Dither Aurora

Orbital Labs, 1989. Demo for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A 8-kilobyte intro for the Amstrad CPC by Orbital Labs, released at North Bellholm Byte Fest in 1989.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 1999. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
16b8e221e826c9c5e41ea8c18c4e3e93b7b3b3384dced318b333891b0fa5cbb8
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPC-5 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.

Cite as: Orbital Labs, Dither Aurora (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03032.

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