Lazarus Archive · LZ-03222

Afterglow Machine

Binary Systems, 1989. Demo for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A 16-kilobyte intro for the Amstrad CPC by Binary Systems, released at the Wolfmore Bay Gathering in 1989.

Provenance

Deposited by North Redcombe Community Archive in 2002. Three disks; two read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9c1aa4b370866831c4f6dbf028676b5efcb1aa240dbd8efd6c41cffe0067ca4f
Last verified
Oct 29, 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: Binary Systems, Afterglow Machine (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03222.

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